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I made my server listen on two ports now, but what about people that don't have control over their mail servers?<BR>
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On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 22:40 -0500, Brian D. Ropers-Huilman wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On 4/3/07, Jon Schewe <<A HREF="mailto:jpschewe@mtu.net">jpschewe@mtu.net</A>> wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Has anyone else run across this? As of today I'm no longer able to send</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> mail through my mailserver (mtu.net) port 25 as comcast is blocking all</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> outgoing connections on port 25 for "my protection".</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">This is a fairly common practice to prevent you from using mail</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">servers that are not their own. One easy solution is to setup your MTA</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">to listen on another port (I've used 2525) or to send via SSL/TLS as</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">they never think to block 465.</FONT>
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