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Re: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Fri Jun 19 11:51:30 2009

Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:51:06 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
In-Reply-To: <1245356861.8442.6.camel@legolas.orthanc.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>
> Except for those ISPs who choose to intercept port 587 as well. This is
> a big problem with Rogers in Vancouver. They hijack port 587 connections
> through some sort of lame proxy that connects you to your intended host,
> but strips the AUTH field out of the EHLO response from the remote
> submission server ...

Grr. Someone needs to whack them with the clue bat.

Tony.
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