Rogers bandwidth warnings appearing in web browser

[James Knott]

D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Matthew Godycki <mcg2-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>
>
> | To be fair, many people that have Rogers High Speed Internet use it purely as
> | an ISP and do not use their e-mail services.
>
> I run fetchmail every few months to see what crud is in my Rogers
> account.  Most or all is ads from Rogers.  So if they want to talk to me,
> they seem to think that they could use email.  Consistent?  Rogers?
>
> I don't think that they allow forwarding from that account to
> somewhere else.  Pity.
>   

Actually, they do.
> I'm still not using "Rogers Yahoo" mail (or whatever the new thing
> is), even though they pushed customers to move over.  My feeling is
> that if Rogers wants me to do something there is probably a reason
> that I shouldn't.
>
> I'm not clear on whether I can send outbound mail through their SMTP
> server with my domain as the From address.  When they started blocking
> outbound TCP to port 25 they had a FAQ that dissed that as "vanity
> domain" -- first I'd heard of the term but not the last.
>   
They do allow off network outbound email, using port 587. I don't know 
if that will help you.
> When I want to send email through my Rogers connection (only in
> emergencies) I use an IPsec tunnel to a friendly relay in another
> continent.  Another thing to break.
>   

I use OpenVPN to remotely access an IMAP server on my home network.

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