[ale] If you're on Bellsouth DSL, I recommend changing providers.

[Allan Neal]

I'm on Bellsouth DSL as well.  Just regular home service on the fastaccess DSL
(not "Lite").  Here is the results today of a telnet to one of my free email
accounts smtp server:

telnet smtp.gawab.com 25
Trying 204.97.230.39...
Connected to smtp.gawab.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 gawab.com ESMTP
ehlo
250-gawab.com
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
250 SIZE 0
quit
221 gawab.com
Connection closed by foreign host.

Working for me.

Allan

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:50:38AM -0400, J. Cary Howell wrote:
> Hey all:
> 
> According to Bellsouth (response via email attached below) port 25 (they
> call it filtering, I call it blocking) will NOT ever be lifted.  It
> seems if you want to use anything but Bellsloth's mail server, you're
> going to have to change providers.
> 
> Here are two providers you may want to consider as alternates. Both have
> reported to me that they will not port-block (with the exception of 139-
> NETBIOS).
> 
> http://www.speedfactory.net/
> http://www.speakeasy.net/     
> 
> Anyhow, I hope all of you on Bellsloth DSL change providers.  Whether or
> not you handle your own mail, the point is that no provider should block
> us from using whatever servers or services we have on the net.
> 
> Have a great day.
> Cary
> 
> On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 07:50, ADSL Agent 54919 wrote:
> 
> > Thank you for contacting BellSouth?? FastAccess?? Internet Services.
> > We apologize for the technical problems you have experienced.
> > 
> > The trouble you are experiencing is due to port 25 filtering.  
> > Port 25 filtering is an effective means of reducing the amount 
> > of spam that passes through the BellSouth Internet Services 
> > (BIS) e-mail system. The implementation of Port 25 filtering 
> > will restrict customers that connect to the Internet via 
> > BellSouth access services from using mail servers outside of
> > the BellSouth network to relay their mail. This means you are 
> > blocked from executing an SMTP send on another outgoing email 
> > server other than through the BellSouth SMTP server 
> > [ mail.bellsouth.net ]. Bellsouth currently has no plans in 
> > removing port 25 blocking for residential customers.
> 
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