Re: Fully spam/virus filtered mail, and reliable outbound relay

From: Leythos (void_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 06/07/04 

Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 13:21:44 GMT

In article <slrncc8ol7.6ps.fhahnisfake@bart.fcjc.net>,
fhahnisfake@yahoo.com.invalid says...
> I am currently interested in finding a SMTP provider that offers
> access to their server via some other port besides port 25. Currently,
> my ISP is blocking outgoing port 25 because of
> virused/infected/trojaned machines on their system. They were
> threatened to be placed on some blacklist (I believe) by some large
> ISP provider.

I think you are going to find that the block SMTP out of their network
and into their network so that home users infected computers don't start
sending spam/virus infected email directly from their PC's.

In a lot of cases, a virus will have it's own SMTP server so that it can
send directly from the infected PC to the public - if they block
outbound SMTP except from their server it means that those infected
email don't make it out.

So, even if you get inbound SMTP on another port, it may mean that you
can't send from your server since they may also block outbound SMTP from
your address to the public. 

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