On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 14:31 +0100, jonathan wrote:
Sorry but I disagree with Per. ISPs have a duty to prevent email Spam which is a terrible curse for us all. If they decide that blocking port 25 outbound will help then they should do it.
Well, preventing customers to use Windows(tm) boxes behind broadband accesses would help much much more to prevent spam. *scnr*
If you are a user, why can't you use the ISPs relay server? If you are a provider you ought to have your own mail server on a fixed IP address.
Because there are pretty much KMU, which are having their own mail server, which is hard to set up if you have to use a relay server with authentication. Some Exchanges still don't support that.
If I was a customer, blocking a relevant port is a service downgrade (without proper information) and I would pretty hard insist in cancling the contract.
Have a nice day! - Dan