sending receiving email on bells sympatico smtp port filtering using evolution

[James Knott]

Ivan Avery Frey wrote:
> I was configuring email for someone who was on Sympatico HSE. They had
> always sent email through U of T's SMTP server, when U of T was their ISP.
> 
> But you shouldn't have to change the SMTP server when you use a 3rd
> party ISP. U of T saves your IP address when you receive mail and so
> you're automatically authenticated to send email through their SMTP server.
> 
> Sympatico of course would block traffic to port 25 if it wasn't destined
> for their SMTP server.
> 
> So my friend cancelled their service. So when I told them the reason
> their less than competent (no offense to people involved) technical
> support would give me a song and dance about how it wasn't possible to
> do what I wanted to do. I told them their competitor Rogers had no
> problem allowing traffic to reach U of T's SMTP servers.
> 
> 
> Some days later, I tried to send mail and it went through. So I
> cancelled the cancellation.
> 
> Later when I was talking to Bell, they mentioned that if I'm having a
> problem with 1st level technical support, to ask to speak with 2nd level
> technical support.

Some ISPs provide a second port, to bypass outgoing SMTP filters.
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