No email from home

Posted on July 12, 2005
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Looks like Rogers is now blocking port 25 to anywhere but their own servers, which is why I haven’t been sending any email from home for the past few days.

Very unimpressive Rogers, very unimpressive.

Update
From Roger’s own website: Why am I having difficulty sending email messages through my work or school email account?

In an effort to reduce unsolicited bulk email traffic (”spam”), Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet and many other Internet and e-mail service providers now prevent access to the standard port used in sending e-mail (port 25) for any message that do not use the ISP’s own outgoing SMTP servers.

It then proceeds to make some suggestions as to what to do about this. Still not impressed.

Comments

2 Responses to “No email from home”

  1. Mitchua on July 12th, 2005 8:39 pm

    Sympatico has been blocking 25 and 6881 (bittorrent) for a long time. They’re just trying to save the money they should be spending to track traffic and find the individual offenders (like MCI in the States) ;-)

  2. MrHappy on July 12th, 2005 9:38 pm

    Turns out that for my host (can’t recommend them enough: Korax) has an alternate port open that seems to work nicely.

    Which makes me think that if I were a spammer I’d just use that port too and everything would be hunky spammy dory and Rogers would have gone out of their way to inconvenience me for no reason.

    Maybe it’s not actually because of the spammers….

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