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Port blocking?

So a friend spends summers in Maine and gets DSL from [guess who...]

He was unable to send email to his university account port 465. I was not consulted, but Fairpoint support convinced him he had to use THEIR server, port 25. And they don't even offer TSL/SSL.

Does anyone know for sure if Fairport blocking outgoing 465/585/587/etc?

I don't think TSL/SSL offers end-to-end security; it is just for the client-to-server connection for the message submission.

I can't address whether Fairpoint is blocking message submission ports. Having a copy of the send error would help.

Perhaps you could post the host name of Uni message submission server. Then a tech-savvy FP user could attempt to Telnet in to port 465.
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Norman
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TLS/SSL offers you security from sniffing between the MUA and the MTA. Since that traffic includes your login & passwords, it's a good idea.

I know I can/do telnet to 465 from here, well away from Fairpoint. This is no problem while on sensible providers.

The question is: what will Fairpoint let through? And not being there, I can not test that. Hence my query here.

By testing to ANY site with mail ports there; save those within Fairpoint's walls, of course. Fairpoint's blocking is not to one site, but via some ports.

Or I'm pretty sure that that the M-lab test suite include a list of blocked ports. (»measurementlab.net)