 RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY | reply to Hall
Re: Deal with it..... said by Hall:
said by plat2on1:
uhm, by blocking port 25 they are telling users they cannot use external PAY email services and they MUST use ISP provided account. thats absolutely ridiculous.
Bullsh*t... With Earthlink/Mindspring, who blocks outbound port 25, you can use any e-mail address, account, reply-to, etc, etc you want to. All you HAVE to use is smtp.earthlink.net, smtp.mindspring.com, or smtpauth.earthlink.net to SEND messages. What is the harm in that ??
The harm is that Earthlink's smtp.earthlink.net servers that are reachable from Non-Earthlink Connectivity (as would be the case if you are on the road and at a hotel using DSL from your room) do not respond on Port587 (I do not know if the ones from the Earthlink LAN do either). Thus you must screw with your settings every time you change connectivity instead of having settings that are Connectivity Independent. If you must use Port 25 to get to Earthlink from the Internet, what happens when you use some other ISP for connectivity who ALSO blocks Port25? If you force all LAN traffic through your servers, you should have Port587 available as a Port25 Alternative for both LAN and WAN (Internet) connectivity sessions . |
