sympatico's SMTP server changed: need a new work-around

[Alex Volkov]

Sending email from different domain always worked with sympatico maybe 
something is wrong with that particular server. You probably already 
tried to checking connection using telnet, I just successfully connected 
to  smtphm.sympatico.ca

Anyway, I always thought that using sympatico smtp server is kind of a 
bad idea -- if anything it increases your messages spam probability 
score as originating mail server doesn't match sender mail server 
address, but as I'm thinking about it now, I'm not entirely sure that 
this is true.

You can try using SMTP over SSL if email service provider supports it 
(gmail does).

You can tunnel SMTP inside a VPN connection provided that you have 
enough rights to the server. A more cunning way of using this method is 
to open up a tunnel to a computer that's not connected to the Internet 
via Bell and simply send mail via that computer.

Also you can call customer service and complain, but frankly, setting up 
vpn is less painful than dealing with bell customer support.

Alex.

On 17/03/11 11:52 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> My doaughter uses Sypatico ADSL.  She uses their SMTP server for outbound
> mail.
>
> She does not use a Sympatico email address.  The normal way of
> submitting email to sympatico blocks non-sympatico email addresses.
> But if you used smtp2.sympatico.ca as the server, it worked.
>
> Today, smtp2.sympatico.ca stopped accepting SMTP connections on port
> 25.  We tried 587 too.
>
> Does anyone know a new trick?
>
> (Clearly ditching Sympatico is called for but there are reasons not to
> do so and in any case that would take a while.)
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