[ale] SMTP fails at Motels ok at Home

[Jay Loden]

The best way to get around any such issues is to set up SMTP over SSL, or
failing that, use SSH tunneling to forward the appropriate port. Are you running
your own mail server that you can't connect to or is this your provider's mail
server you can't reach from a motel?

-Jay

Ashley Wilson wrote:
> May be blocking that port for all connections not serviced directly by bellsouth, maybe because its a little more difficult to shut down  a brute force attacker as easily outside their network... Sometimes ISPs open up port 50 for off-network smtp access... I would try other ports...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jtholmes <linux at jtholmes.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 10:50 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: [ale] SMTP fails at Motels ok at Home
> 
> 
> I have Bellsouth DSL at home, thunderbird and smtp work fine there
> 
> Get on the Road, staying at Hamptons Mostly and it never works.
> 
> Someone said the ISP for Hamptons is blocking port 25.
> 
> Wireshark shows  SMTP  SYN[0]  records going out but never any SMTP
> coming back. Anyone know if they are  indeed blocking port 25
> 
> If they are blocking, is there a secured port work around as I cant stand WebMail most of
> the time and it is getting annoying to say the least
> 
> thanks
> jt
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