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

[jim]

I just sent an email via Sympatico from a non-Sympatico email address on
smtp10.bellnet.ca and it worked .

jim

On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 13:33 -0400, Alex Volkov wrote:
> 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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