Rogers bandwidth warnings appearing in web browser

[Jose A. Dias]

> From: D. Hugh Redelmeier
> | 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?

Business decisions. They usually have nothing to do with real
"requirements lists" so yes, they don't make sense to us.

> I don't think that they allow forwarding from that account to
> somewhere else.  Pity.

Oh yes they do. My address and my wife's address are forwarded to my
domain. This has been available for months now...

> 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 only use that address to hear from them, and yes, it's mostly adds.
But at least that confirms to me that it's still working. I've had far
too many examples of e-mail just "stopping" because of changes done on
Roger's network that they don't pre-announce. I never hear "we are going
to do..." I only get the "we've done ..." and then I have to "fix" it
again.

> 
> 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.

I use dyndns with their outbound relay. It's the only way I can be sure
my mail goes out...

> 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.

Agreed.
-- 
Jose Dias
jose "dot" dias "at" DiasLan "dot" net
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