[TriLUG] Port 25 blocked

[Dave Sorenson]

I specifically asked when I signed up a year ago if it was OK to run a
mailserver and they said it was. Again when I was checking on the upgrade I
mentioned the webserver and the mail server that I was running and was told
that it was no problem. Only after upgrading and having the SMTP blocked and
escalating through 3 levels of chairwarmers (each level said you shouldn't
be blocked) was I told too bad so sad we lied, new policy outlaws on
residential class DSL. We can't help you unless you buy a business class
DSL. I asked how much that would cost and they couldn't even transfer me to
the sales folks. Finally get to a Business class sales person who tells my
they can't help me because I have a residential class line. In short they
don't care. This is the abbreviated version, the total time I spent on the
phone with the BS clowns clocked in at just under 5 hours over 3 days.

DS

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
Of Brian A. Henning
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 12:22 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Port 25 blocked

Just out of curiosity, what do they say when you ask them to explain and/or
unblock the port?

~B


> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]On
> Behalf Of Dave Sorenson
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 12:15 PM
> To: 'Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list'
> Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Port 25 blocked
>
>
> They got me on this too.. Workarounds would be fantastic.
>
> DS
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org
> [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Hoffman
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 11:57 AM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: [TriLUG] Port 25 blocked
>
> Well,
>     Bellsouth suckered me into upgrading to thier extreme package and 
> unbenknownst to me they are blocking incoming and outgoing ports 25,
> 139 and a few other odd ones.  I could care less about samba, but I'm 
> more worried about mail.
>     Has anyone on the list had to work around a closed port 25, and 
> how did you do it.  I've already looked into MOXY since I have access 
> to several servers, but I don't want to create my personal accounts on 
> these machines.
> So I could switch sendmail to listen on port 26 and have a different 
> machine mail proxy the messages to me.
>    Another thought I had was to setup some sort of mail collection 
> server that received *@domain.com and put it into a spool file that I 
> pop'd into, pulled down and fed to sendmail or procmail.
>    Does anyone else have any other suggestions, what has worked best 
> for others?
>
> TIA
> Steve
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