[GTALUG] Connection Refused

[William Park]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 07:50:52PM -0500, Randy Jonasz wrote:
> 
> >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.

Can you clearify?  If your ISP is blocking outgoing port 25, then
adding port 25 to postfix doesn't do anything, because postfix will
never receive anything.  Do you mean, you added port 587 (submission) to
postfix?
-- 
William