[ale] Bellsouth to Speakeasy?

[Geoffrey]

Jason Day wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 07:56:55PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>David Corbin wrote:
>>
>>>Geoffrey wrote:
>>>
>>
>>>>I guess it depends on your point of view.  They are blocking port 25 
>>>>then, just providing you a service to use for that purpose.   But some 
>>>>folks prefer to run their own mail server.
>>>
>>>
>>>But I *AM* running my own mail server.  In fact, I have two SMTP servers 
>>>running, and an IMAP server.
>>
>>So then they're not blocking your port 25.
> 
> 
> Pardon me for jumping in, but I believe they block port 25 *outbound*,
> not inbound.  The reason for doing this is to force people to use their
> ISP's SMTP server to send mail, which virtually eliminates spam coming
> from that ISP's network.  If all ISPs did this it would probably cut
> down the spam quite a bit.

Okay, so how do you run a mail server if port 25 outbound is blocked?

> 
> Jason

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