[COLUG] Dry Loop DSL

[Rob Stampfli]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 03:19:52PM -0400, Robert Grimm wrote:
> AT&T was forced to make naked DSL available everywhere as a condition of 
> their acquisition of Bell South. I don't know if it works differently 
> from regular DSL, but I suspect it is the same so you can easily switch 
> to regular DSL when they manage to convince you to get a phone line.

Good thing to know.  Thanks for the info.

> I'm not trying to host my own mail at home. I'm trying to send mail  
> through other SMTP servers besides the ones owned by the ISP. My company 
> has a mail host that I use for all business mail. I also use Google's 
> SMTP servers without using their web client.

Oh, so you're trying to connect to a port 25 somewhere else in the
world, and AT&T is preventing you from doing that.  The reason is
that they are trying to prevent zombie machines on their network
from being turned into spam engines.  You have several choices:
You could ask them to open port 25 access for you.  You could also
see if your company accepts mail on port 587.  That's the alternate
submission port, normally reserved for secure connections, but many
(most?) default to treating it like an alternative port.  Google
accepts this (but note they also require a secure connection for
any mail service, whether on port 25 or port 587).  Beyond that,
it becomes more complicated:  requiring something like VPN, or
bouncing through a helpful 3rd party, or even using UUCP (yes, I've
done this!).

Good luck,
Rob