Re: Packaging progress

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 10:09 -0600, Tommy Reynolds wrote:
> Thank BellSouth for blocking all 25/tcp and 25/udp access unless its
> to their very own SMTP server.  They claim it is to help prevent
> relaying; they don't seem to believe there are other solutions.  At
> that, they're better than the Charter setup that's my only
> alternative.

Blocking access to port 25 isn't such a bad plan in the grand scheme of
things. What's the actual problem -- just that their servers are very
slow to pass mail through? You could use an external mail server
listening on a port other than 25, surely?

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