well, actually.. it seems someone from us confirmed it in the comments of http://blog.neocid.li/?p=105 ... -steven
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On > Behalf Of Thomas Mueller > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 1:40 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [swinog] mail "problems - port 25 on swisscom dsl (works fine > for at > least me though) > > Am Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:26:26 +0100 schrieb Jeroen Massar: > > > Thomas Mueller wrote: > >> hi > >> > >> customers phoned me that they could not send emails anymore. needed to > >> switch to port 587. > > > > Maybe there is something filtering between you and them. They should be > > using port 587 anyway which is supposed to be the submission port. > > Unless they are running a fullblown SMTP setup on a DSL link of course. > > yeah, nothing against port 587, but blocking port 25 without informing > customers BEFORE is not the way to go. (most) mail-clients use port 25 if > you do not specify it manually. > > maybe swisscom has reasons to do this - trojans/viruses sending spams > maybe? > > > > >> now heard from others that swisscom is blocking port 25 ??? what the > >> heck is going on ? > > > > Which "others" and what metrics do they have? > > a colleague too got calls from customers not able to send mails anymore. > take a look at this blog entry http://blog.neocid.li/?p=105 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > swinog mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
