Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
There are many services offering SMTP AUTH on arbitrary ports (standard
submission port is 587), which you can use from an ISP that blocks
port 25. It is cheap too, dnsmadeeasy.com is $15/yr. The catch is, that I
have yet to see one that actively prevents cross customer forgery.
Yes. The four different ISP's I've used haven't even offered AUTH in any
form. Adding a mailserver halfway across the globe to the mix is not my
idea of fun. I'm running my own server and crossing my fingers hoping
spf will catch on before evereybody starts blocking mail from all
dynamic IP-numbers. Network outages with no explanation is quite common
for a lowly private subscriber. Calling to ask what is going on is the
normal support-line-hell, but I've picked up enough jargon to find out
fairly quickly if they are having a server error. So far all outages
have been due to routers/servers ("common errors" in my ISPs lingo),
never anything on the last mile to my home.
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