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

[James Knott]

James Knott wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Hmmm...  I just did a test and inbound port 25 is not blocked on Rogers.



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