SMTP-Friendly ISPs? 70
alanpage asks: "My
ISP got out of the dial-up business and sold my account to Earthlink.
They do not allow me to send e-mail (via port 25) on behalf of the
web sites that I maintain. Are any of the major players in broadband
or dial-up port 25 friendly?"
Port 25 Friendly? (Score:3, Informative)
By reading your question, it sounds like you want to send out mail via your ISPs SMTP using an e-mail address for a webdomain not hosted by them. Any GOOD ISP will not let you do this.
You may wonder why. Well, if I can do this, then I can forge e-mail addresses and send out any kind of mail I want. That's a good way to get blacklisted.
Basically "port 25 friendly" is also known as "spam friendly".
What I would recommend is seeing if those sites where those domains are hosted allow SMTP services with password authentication. Some place do, and then you can send out mail from any ISP using those mail server.
My personal e-mail is not connected to my ISP. I have password authentication in place.
Re:Port 25 Friendly? (Score:2, Informative)
FYI for the poster, I think Speakeasy [speakeasy.net] doesn't block outgoing (or incoming) SMTP. They have DSL and dial-up. Personally, I use AOL Timewarner roadrunner, and they don't block it. But cable modems may not be available / desired.
Why not use tunnelling (Score:3, Informative)
Why don't you tunnel ? Then you can use whatever port you want.
If you have SSH running on one of these servers - and who doesn't nowadays - you can easily tunnel. Just check your ssh client configurations. If you're running windows, a good client is SecureCRT [vandyke.com]. If you're running linux, and the other side is windows NT/2000/XP, use this PPtP client [mit.edu]
And there's another advantage with tunnelling: You can compress. Unless you have a very fast connection, you'll visibly notice a speed improvement when compressing.
DirectTV DSL (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Port 25 Friendly? (Score:4, Informative)
Use ssh (Score:3, Informative)
ssh -L2001:mail.server.to.use:25 my.shell.server
Any connections to port 2001 on your local machine will then be forwarded (encrypted) to your shell server, and from there be forwarded to port 25 on the mail server.
ssh makes a great tool for busting out of firewalls.