[COLUG] Dry Loop DSL

[Robert Grimm]

Good idea. I'll have to get into the Qmail conf files, open port 587,  
and make this a non-issue.

On Jul 6, 2008, at 8:57 PM, Rob Stampfli wrote:

> 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
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