RCN pointers

[bill at horne.net (Bill Horne)]

Drew Taylor wrote:

> On Oct 13, 2005, at 11:16 PM, Bill Horne wrote:
>
>> Drew Taylor wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> We switched from Comcast to RCN today. So far so good, but any   
>>> pointers I should know about? I've already found about the   
>>> requirement to use their SMTP server - that one's going to be a  
>>> pain  for me since I use a laptop. Any other restrictions?
>>
>>
>> You can get around the SMTP restrictions by purchasing smtp relay  
>> from a number of vendors.
>
>
> I'm not sure what you mean. I do have SMTP access to 3 separate  
> servers, but all attempts by my local mail client to contact them  
> time out. I thought I had read that port 25 outbound was blocked for  
> any server other than smtp.rcn.com.
>
> If there is something I'm missing, I want to know. :-)
>
> Drew

Drew,

Port 25 restrictions have been implemented so widely that vendors have 
offered to take SMTP traffic on alternate ports. You can send on port 
587 if that's not blocked [yet], or go to a "high" port such as 41225 
and bypass the restriction that way.

Bill

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