[ale] Mindspring Question for you guys

[James P. Kinney III]

I have had Mindspring for years (customer number has only 4 digits).
They don't restrict anything other than mail servers. Just set up your
smtp to use mail.mindspring.com as the "Smart Host" and it all works
well.

On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 20:57, Steven A. DuChene wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 11:20:14PM -0500, Jeb W. Barger wrote:
> >  
> >  
> > Mindspring cable has moved into my area, and I was curious if Mindspring
> > does any port restrictions (POP, SMTP, WWW, etc) ?  Hopefully not, but I
> > need to ask before I switch for RoadRunner (who is now charging for
> > monthly bandwidth overage.  They only give you 40gigs a month)..
> >  
> > Thanks and let me know,
> >  
> > Jeb
> 
> I don't know about the Mindspring cable service but for dial-up users they
> do block outgoing port 25 stuff so you HAVE to send outgoing E-mail through
> their mail servers. Not sure if they restrict incoming connections like
> port 80 to your box but I'm betting they do.
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