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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. duh... by ameoba · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Keep in mind that if you want to pay commodity prices for a service, you are going to get a service that has been sanitized and developed for the masses. What you're asking is essentially the same as "How can I get WinXP-home to work as a good server?".

    If you want to connect to outside SMTP servers, you'll either have to go with a smaller ISP that doesn't have paranoid, 'we're not going to be the front for spam' policies in place (and make a sacrfice, be it limited dialing area, higher prices, or whatever) or tunnel out to a server that will allow you to connect to foreign SMTP servers.

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  2. 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.