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Re: Charter blocking Port 25

  • From: Todd Vierling
  • Date: Thu Jun 10 10:30:40 2004 
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, matthew zeier wrote:

: But this is different - I'm not running a mail server -on- my Cox
: connection.  I'm running one external to Cox but I can't connect to
: port 25 on it.

That's why port 587 was invented.  It's the MSA (mail *submission* agent)
port, intended only for initial injection of mail into the SMTP delivery
network.  Learn it, believe it, use it.  8-)

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-- Todd Vierling <[email protected]> <[email protected]>