rogers modem upgrade / port 25

[Rick Delaney]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:51:05PM -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> 
> Well, if you know that then you know that Rogers isn't forcing you to 
> use their servers. Blocked means "blocked everywhere", you can't even 
> connect to Rogers' own servers on port 25, they give you a different 
> port to use.

You can use another port but you don't have to.

rick at biff:~[13]% telnet smtp-rog.mail.yahoo.com 25
Trying 206.190.36.18...
Connected to smtp-rog.mail.yahoo2.akadns.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com ESMTP
EHLO
250-smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN XYMCOOKIE
250-PIPELINING
250 8BITMIME
^]
telnet>

Trying this with any non-Rogers mailserver will timeout.

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