TLUG vs Sympatico

[Keith Mastin]

> On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 11:05:55PM -0400, Gregory Pleau wrote
>> Now that I've missed a month of TLUG mailings, Two questions:
>
>> 2) (If this was a past topic refer to point #1) Does anyone know of
>> sympatico mail accounts having problems with TLUG? I've tried 5
>> sympatico addresses and got no messages since early July, and would
>> really rather not be using a Hotmail account for this.
>
>   There was a thread approx a month ago on can.internet.highspeed with
> Sympatico users complaining bitterly that Sympatico is now blocking
> *INBOUND* (yes, I said *INBOUND*) port 25, as well as outbound port 25
> to/from user IP addresses.  You must now use Sympatico's MTA for all
> email activity, unless you ssh-tunnel (or something similar) to another
> site.

Doesn't sympatico have some kind of deal happening with M$? Knowing what I
do about some of M$'s attempts to own data, I would be concerned if your
emails are regarded as private. At least be encrytion ready.

-- 
Keith Mastin
BeechTree Information Technology Services Inc.
Toronto, Canada
(416)696 6070


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