Rogers block out Re:Need an ISP in TO

[James Knott]

ted leslie wrote:
> runing an isp and adminsitering a few more,
> this rogers smtp off load over the last couple of days has been weird.
> Rogers soln:
> go to port 587 (they suggested)
> and put a firewall rule in at smtp source to map that  to 25,
> i did that for myself (isp) and another and works like a charm, only issue is,
> all the rogers peopl ehaev to change there smtp port set up in their client.

Why not use port 465, which is the SSL port for SMTP servers.  Any
decent mail client should be able to support it.
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