[ale] If you're on Bellsouth DSL, I recommend changing providers.
Mike Murphy
mike at tyderia.net
Wed Aug 18 16:11:52 EDT 2004
incoming 587 is blocked. outgoing 587 is not. It is true that I could
run it on another port, but which one? A few quick tries on 5 random
incoming ports reveals:
26 blocked
1587 blocked
8587 blocked
87 blocked
31456 blocked
This is the thing: a lot of people here and elsewhere have written
things to the effect of "they cut off outbound port 25? Good!". Well,
they haven't just cut off outbound port 25, they have cut off almost all
inbound ports. Not just those known for security issues, like 139
(netbios), but pretty much everything but 22, 143, 80 and 993. (And I'm
really surprised those are still on too at this point). And there is
still be no official notification nor documentation of any of this from
them, except for the document on their website about what they term
"port 25 filtering".
Bellsouth Apologists want to chock this up as an issue about people
violating their AUP. If its a simple matter of the AUP, why can't
Bellsouth just throw up a document that says "sorry, we blocked pretty
much every inbound port for your safety. If anyone was using those,
tough, its a violation of the AUP", and let all of us that care decide
to jump ship. Even better would be a gracious "we want to keep as much
of your business as possible" policy of releasing anyone who wants out
out of their contract. Otherwise, I'd say they run the risk of losing
more revenue from the services that drive profits for them, like long
distance and "complete choice".
michael d. ivey wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 03:06:49PM -0400, Mike Murphy wrote:
>
>>Just tried it again to make sure I wasn't crazy, and 587 is blocked as
>>well.
>
>
> Incoming or outgoing?
>
> You can run SMTP or SMTP AUTH on an alternate port, if you had to.
>
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