| reply to Hall
Re: Deal with it..... Hall, I used to post in the EL forum as an official Tech. There are always problems with EL servers, sometimes the routing can be messed up between two of them and it takes 10 hours for messages to go over an internal 100mbit connection from 1 server to another (sitting in the same room). There are lots of reasons why people want to be able to use an SMTP server from their own hosting provider.
#1. That way their email cant be logged by the ISP's email server.... (aside from the ISP sniffing their traffic, AKA Carnivore/DCS1000)
#2. Having mail server show up as "mail.mydomain.com" instead of *.earthlink.net
#3. Avoiding EarthLink's blacklist that happens all the time from auto mass-blacklisting spam lists.
I'm sure there are many more... I realize the hosting company can set up a mail server listening on a different port, but should every other company on the internet have to do something special because some isps are breaking standard port numbers?
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