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Re: FW: Port 25 - Blacklash


From: Matt Ghali <matt () snark net>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:53:28 -0700 (PDT)


Our ISPs don't block anything, to my knowledge; but when our users' 
ISPs began blocking port 25 (especially SBC DSL) we had already been 
encouraging users to configure their clients to use 587.

matto

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Paul Ryan wrote:
  
  For any educational institutions on this list - what has been the 
  impact on your mail services once your ISP started blocking port 
  25 - what if any was the backlash - and how difficult was it to 
  provide alternatives ...587,465 etc ...
  


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              The only thing necessary for the triumph
              of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke


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