[GTALUG] Connection Refused

[Randy Jonasz]

> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 04:40:45PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
>> "Open port 25" disappeared at around the time of the Code Red worm
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Red_%28computer_worm%29)
>>
>> When infected hosts sending out spam got to be a gigantic plague, it became
>> common for ISPs to block port 25 to cut down on the amount of spam they
>> were forwarding.
>>
>> I seriously doubt that your ISP will be willing to change their port blocks.
>> They will most likely say something about "blah, blah, security best practice."

Yeah, I got tired trying to explain to the tech rep at my ISP about what 
I wanted so I just added a smtp port to postfix.  Now everything works.

Thanks to everybody who responded.

Randy