someone is using my email address to spam, is there a way to stop this ?

[James Knott]

Marc Lanctot wrote:
> David Payne wrote:
>> On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 03:16 +0000, Robert Brockway wrote:
>>
>>> It wouldn't.  I was thinking out loud a bit but it occured to me 
>>> that most people are using webmail these days but their local MS-Win 
>>> boxes can still send outbound email which is probably a lot more 
>>> likely to be used by a Trojan than for legit email.  So perhaps 
>>> blocking the ability to send outbound SMTP from home systems by 
>>> default might be an interesting idea to explore.  It somewhat goes 
>>> against the concept of net neutrality but it could be unblocked 
>>> easily enough.
>>>
>>> Rob
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have only delt with 3 ISPs.  Two from Nova Scotia and one from here
>> (Rogers).  All three blocked port 25 outbound, I thought that was the
>> norm rather than the exception.
>
> Are you claiming that when I hook up to Rogers I will not allowed to 
> send mail from my machine using a Rogers SMTP server via port 25? If 
> so..  please, *please* tell me they allow SMTP connections on other 
> ports or I'll lose it. I'm one of the remaining few (< 10%?) people 
> who can't stand the latency of web-based mail clients-- I only use 
> them temporarily when I'm away from a desktop with an email client 
> setup. As you can tell.. I'm dreading the day that webmail will be 
> forced on me!
>
> Do they force SSL or TLS? Do they also force authentication for 
> outbound mail? If so then great.. the more ISPs do this, the better. 
> I'm wondering why it wasn't done 10 years ago.
>
> Marc
>
As far as I know, it's inbound that filtered from off net and they have 
another port.  They also require authentication for outbound mail, but 
not ssl or tls.


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