Relocating to Toronto

Ilya Palagin tux-4CS0UopE6WdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Thu Sep 9 02:45:51 UTC 2004


John Macdonald wrote:
...
> 
> Sympatico started blocking *incoming* smtp just over a year ago,
> which is when I moved to eol.ca.  They have blocked smtp coming
> out of customer systems for many years.  (Relaying outgoing
> email through their server wasn't too much of a hardship and
> even offloaded the queue and retry if the destination was
> temporarily unaccessible, but blocking incoming smtp meant
> that you can't run your own domain using a dynamic DNS service
> to keep your IP address current and I have never had any use
> for my ISP-provided email address except for receiving their
> service info.)

Actually, you can.  It's what I'm doing.  But you need smtp forwarding 
service, which is not free (I'm using easydns.com).  It's useful in any 
case for dynamic IP users.
...
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