Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

Fri Jun 19 09:28:55 UTC 2009

Yes..

1. Customers remember it more easily
2. Some ISP's also block 587 (hence 'SMTP ports' rather then 'SMTP port' 
in my previous comment ;-)

Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
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> Sent from my iPhone, please excuse any errors.
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> On Jun 19, 2009, at 8:53, Jeroen Wunnink <jeroen at easyhosting.nl> wrote:
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>> We just open port 2525 for customers from ISP's blocking official 
>> SMTP ports so they can use their dedicated servers/domain mailservers.
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> Is there any reason you do not use port 587, SUBMIT?
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> -- TTFN,
> patrick
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>> Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 16:14 -0400, Joe Provo wrote:
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>>>> then you should be shifting your userbase to authenticated on the
>>>> SUBMIT port [587] anyway...
>>>>
>>>
>>> Except for those ISPs who choose to intercept port 587 as well. This is
>>> a big problem with Rogers in Vancouver. They hijack port 587 
>>> connections
>>> through some sort of lame proxy that connects you to your intended 
>>> host,
>>> but strips the AUTH field out of the EHLO response from the remote
>>> submission server ...
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> -- 
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>>
>> Jeroen Wunnink,
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