[ale] AT&T U-verse and Charter: SMTP problems

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

    It sounds as though you're hitting the AT&T Residential subscriber 
port 25 block issue. You should be able to use AT&T's SMTP server to 
send out using your AT&T account credentials for SMTP AUTH and be fine 
regardless of what the email address you're sending it as. The other 
alternative is if Charter listens on the SMTP submission port (587/tcp) 
you can use that or if you have your own mail server outside of your 
AT&T connection listening on the submission port or for that matter most 
any port except 25/tcp.

    I run my own mail server at remote location and just have it 
listening on 587 as well as 25 and use it. I don't use AT&T for anything 
but the connectivity and use other sources for email, web and DNS.

    Regards,
    Jeremy

laytonjb at charter.net wrote:
> So I can download my email just fine, but when I try to send using smtp.charter.net
> it says that it's refusing. Why is this? Is there anyway around this (can I use
> AT&T's smtp but have my return email go to charter.net?)
>
> TIA!
>
> Jeff