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Re: ingress SMTP

  • From: Suresh Ramasubramanian
  • Date: Wed Sep 03 13:06:23 2008

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Justin Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Do you operate your mailserver on a residential cablemodem or adsl
>> rather than a business account?
>
> No, we co-lo equipment at a professional facility that our customers on any
> type of connection need to have access to send mail through, regardless of
> whether their ISP blocks the standard ports or not.

That's why you set your outbound MTA to listen  - for auth'd outbound
connections only - on port 587

Endless loop of dead horse beating .. ouch

srs
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Suresh Ramasubramanian ([email protected])