I understand the need to block outbound 25, I was smart relaying out through their SMTP anyway. To block inbound 25 is an attempt to force people to pay more for their business class service. Unfortunately, they won't sell you business service without a business phone line, which they won't sell you if you don't have a "business". Believe me I tried to give them my money, they would not take it.
Oh, and once I figured out the blocking was in place it took me less than an hour to figure a way around it using a port forwarding service. So it is a pretty ineffectual tactic on BS's part. BTW I specifically told them when I signed up and before I did the upgrade that I needed to run a web and mail server and was given the OK if I bought the static IP address so they can't fall back on the "running servers is not permitted..." clause. It doesn't exist in my user agreement either.
Dave S.
Alan Porter wrote:
Actually, Bellsouth only blocks *some* customers. We use BS DSL at work and at home, and I have never seen port 25 blocked. But I have a friend with BS DSL "extreme" and his is blocked. I suspect that they block either:
- everyone who uses DSL extreme - IP's that have given them trouble in the past
Still, the issue is not port 25. It's routing to the mail server.
Alan
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