Tired of Being Screwed By Cox (no pun intended)

Greg plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Wed, 18 Jun 2003 07:35:45 -0700


This one is blocked too.

der.hans wrote:

>Am 17. Jun, 2003 schwätzte Mike Starke so:
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>>What I see more benefit from is having them open
>>25 going the other way! I had loads of uses for that ability
>>until they shut me down....I am able to skirt the port 80 issue
>>by running on something higher, but can not find a similar solution
>>for smtp (e.g run mail on a higher port?).
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>Try using SSMTP, SMTP over SSL. It's port 465 and I've never heard of it
>being blocked. I think all the main SMTP daemons support it.
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>Haven't actually tried it myself, but more and more mail servers are adding
>support.
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>Once you have that working get someone who has port 25 available to be an MX
>for you and they can forward mail from servers that don't support SSMTP :).
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>ciao,
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>der.hans
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