| Communist Internet I find it really interesting how internet ISPs mentality follows much of the political mentality. In other words, Instead of the confrontation and punishment of the offenders lets just make it hard on everyone to do it. Next thing you know our email will be nice and regulated and then ISPs are going to need to recover costs for regulating email and then guess what. PAY PER EMAIL services like the post office. I'm sure that will make for an interesting forum topic. |
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b0gey
join:2004-06-06
Burbank, CA | Hi,
I have the same problem. Charter just blocked smtp ports to other smtp services and I need to send 12 to 20 MB file attachments via email. I can previously do this by using a 3rd party email account but since port 25 is blocked I can't do it anymore. Can someone tell me what needs to be done on the server-side and client side to use a different port for relaying?
Thanks in advace. Hope I get some sort of comment this time for I've been posting but I don't get any replies. It's like emailing myself.  |
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i agree F#)K ISP. if anyone knows a work around for this please let me know....
What the Anti-Spam community does is alot like what Communist China does with their internet. I've hosted my own web-sight www.tim-city.com with my own email system, for the last 5 years with a dynamic ip address. I had no problems, every time the dhcp renewed my license i just broadcast my custom mac address and walla i always recieved the same internet IP address. over 5 years i give out my private fully customizable sendmail server email address to a lot of people i wanted to stay in contact with.
buckeye-express ISP recently blocked request's on port 25 out and in without any notification. all i knew was i wasn't receiving emails, so i upgraded my linux kernel and senmail, to the latest versions. nope. bought a new router. nope... but the new router told me more than the old one did about what was happenning. I finally traced it down the isp. they want $20 more a month for a static ip to re-open that port. I think that is a crime. I buy something then the manyfacurer turns off a specific feature i use and demands more money, that is
specifically targeting me. Do i have any grounds for a lawsuit here? my private email has been down since feburary and any important emails i might have needed to recieve are now lost forever, without any notification from the isp that
they were targeting me individually for more money? |
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Frankly there isn't much you can do unless you control both your 3rd party mail server as far as sending out. I am fighting with Bellsouth and their arguement is that they don't want spammers sending mail out. well find but that has nothing to do with opening incoming mail ports. They told me that I can't run a mail server because I would be providing "public information services". Well guess what. It isn't public. I'm the only one that uses it. They really don't care about the customer. I notice however that business class accounts don't have any problems because nothing is blocked. Whats up with that? So what your saying is that spammers (who gets lots of money to send out spam) can still spam from their networks. Bellsouth is the biggest bunch of hipocrites I have ever seen. |
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