[ale] If you're on Bellsouth DSL, I recommend changing providers.

[Matthew Brown]

Give it time.  If they keep rolling this out, you'll lose this, too.

Allan Neal wrote:

>I'm on Bellsouth DSL as well.  Just regular home service on the fastaccess DSL
>(not "Lite").  Here is the results today of a telnet to one of my free email
>accounts smtp server:
>
>telnet smtp.gawab.com 25
>Trying 204.97.230.39...
>Connected to smtp.gawab.com.
>Escape character is '^]'.
>220 gawab.com ESMTP
>ehlo
>250-gawab.com
>250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
>250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN
>250-PIPELINING
>250-8BITMIME
>250 SIZE 0
>quit
>221 gawab.com
>Connection closed by foreign host.
>
>Working for me.
>
>Allan
>
>On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:50:38AM -0400, J. Cary Howell wrote:
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>>Hey all:
>>
>>According to Bellsouth (response via email attached below) port 25 (they
>>call it filtering, I call it blocking) will NOT ever be lifted.  It
>>seems if you want to use anything but Bellsloth's mail server, you're
>>going to have to change providers.
>>
>>Here are two providers you may want to consider as alternates. Both have
>>reported to me that they will not port-block (with the exception of 139-
>>NETBIOS).
>>
>>http://www.speedfactory.net/
>>http://www.speakeasy.net/     
>>
>>Anyhow, I hope all of you on Bellsloth DSL change providers.  Whether or
>>not you handle your own mail, the point is that no provider should block
>>us from using whatever servers or services we have on the net.
>>
>>Have a great day.
>>Cary
>>
>>On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 07:50, ADSL Agent 54919 wrote:
>>
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>>>Thank you for contacting BellSouth?? FastAccess?? Internet Services.
>>>We apologize for the technical problems you have experienced.
>>>
>>>The trouble you are experiencing is due to port 25 filtering.  
>>>Port 25 filtering is an effective means of reducing the amount 
>>>of spam that passes through the BellSouth Internet Services 
>>>(BIS) e-mail system. The implementation of Port 25 filtering 
>>>will restrict customers that connect to the Internet via 
>>>BellSouth access services from using mail servers outside of
>>>the BellSouth network to relay their mail. This means you are 
>>>blocked from executing an SMTP send on another outgoing email 
>>>server other than through the BellSouth SMTP server 
>>>[ mail.bellsouth.net ]. Bellsouth currently has no plans in 
>>>removing port 25 blocking for residential customers.
>>>      
>>>
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>>http://www.xilogix.net
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