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SMTP-Friendly ISPs?

Posted by Cliff on from the only-if-you're-not-a-spammer dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:Port 25 Friendly? by kooshball · · Score: 4, Informative

    Earthlink, the poster's new ISP (as well as mine), allows this already. My home email system uses Earthlink's SMTP server as a mail gateway. Rather than contacting destination SMTP servers directly, it forwards everything through Earthlink. Since the connection is coming from an Earthlink IP address, the relay is allowed eventhough the address is from a different domain.