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Re: Finding a replacement for my ISP's smtp server



On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 02:02:29PM +0200, Slavko wrote:
> Ahoj,
> 
> Dňa Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:02:18 +0100 Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
> napísal:
> 
> > On Sun 27 Jul 2014 at 10:03:29 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > 
> > > My current best guess is you are attempting to connect to gmail's
> > > servers on port 25 and your ISP has blocked connections to port 25
> > > for any server except their own, in which case port 587 should work
> > > instead.
> > 
> > He could check with nc.
> > 
> >   brian@desktop:~$ nc smtp.gmail.com 25
> >   220 mx.google.com ESMTP 19sm41008233wjz.3 - gsmtp
> > 
> 
> AFAIK, the port 25 have to used only for (inter-) servers connections,

Well no, not using 25, but I am using this thread to test if I have
fixed a different problem in my email setup. 
OK to not respond to this denial (;-)

> the clients have connect via 587, the port 25 for client connections is
> for backward compatibility only.
> 
> regards
> 
> -- 
> Slavko
> http://slavino.sk



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