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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Charter blocking Port 25
I just tested it and it looks like it isn't happening anymore. But it definitely was (smtp.east.cox.net), and made me look like an idiot in one situation where I was convinced the recepient's filter is dropping my e-mail. If you google usenet for "cox root password" you'll see other people describing it. To be fair, this was more likely a fluke and Cox isn't to blame since they are just trying to do their best to deal with spam... My message was meant more as a general warning to people, not an anti-Cox thing of any kind, my cable modem has been very stable lately and throughput is excellent :-) Grisha On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Richard Parker wrote: > > on 6/9/04 9:10 PM, Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy at [email protected] wrote: > > > Cox also filters your e-mail on their SMTP server such that if it contains > > both words "root" and "password" it will get silently dropped. This is > > why I'm using an alternate port to bypass their SMTP server (or you > > wouldn't get this e-mail). > > I find it hard to believe that Cox has secretly implemented a policy of > dropping all outgoing mail that contains the phrase "root password." In > fact, I just sent this e-mail to the NANOG mailing list via the Cox SMTP > server smtp.west.cox.net, so if they have implemented such a policy, they > haven't implemented it on all of their servers. > > -Richard >
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