[ale] AT&T having outgoing email issues

[Jason Fritcher]

On Jun 16, 2009, at 10:16 PM, Björn Gustafsson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:17 PM,  
> Geoffrey<lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>> Then you're stuck with webmail and I have yet to find one I like.
>> Bellsouth blocks port 25 unless you pay business $$$, so you're  
>> screwed.
>
> GMail gives you IMAP or POP, so you don't need to use the web UI if
> you don't like it, and  smtp.gmail.com uses port 587 with TLS, so no
> port 25 problems either.

587 FTW. I ran into this problem with my AT&T DSL line, so I setup my  
outside mail server to listen on 587  for message submission with SSL  
and user auth required and it has worked great. I have yet to find a  
network that blocks that port.

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Jason Fritcher
jkf at wolfnet.org