On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 21:59, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 07 Apr 2004, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > Lots of providers block outgoing port 25 for no good reason. I guess > > most of these also block port 80 to force people to use their proxy, > > so I don't know if this gains anything. > > Well, hopefully in those cases you can enter your ISP's smtp server, > which should work instead of the default. [Why many ISPs insist on > being totally braindead and doing garbage like that is something I'll > never really understand...] I do not think it makes sense for ISPs, but in some company networks that allow windows clients it _does_ make sense, to prevent virii from spreading out, if the company MTA has a virus scanner. Greetings, Oliver
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