Port 25 - Blacklash

Wed Apr 27 08:47:59 UTC 2005

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Daniel Golding wrote:

>
>
> Do all of Comcast's markets block port 25? Is there a correlation between
> spam volume and the ones that do (or don't)?
>
> In any event the malware is already ahead of port 25 blocking and is
> leveraging ISP smarthosting. SMTP-Auth is the pill to ease this pain/

Really smtp-auth will solve it? or do most windows mua's cache your 
password?

> - Dan
>
>
> On 4/26/05 2:49 PM, "Hank Nussbacher" <hank at mail.iucc.ac.il> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Adam Jacob Muller wrote:
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>> Doesn't seem to be stemming the tide of emails from Comcast though:
>>
> <http://www.senderbase.org/?searchBy=organization&searchString=Comcast%20Cable>
>>
>>
>> -Hank
>>
>>> For example, about 2 months ago, comcast decided to block outgoing
>>> port 25 from my entire neighborhood. I called comcast, and while
>>> sitting on hold I had the idea to setup a ssh tunnel to a machine at
>>> work and viola problem solved before anyone from comcast even
>>> answered the phone.
>
>

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