At 2:06 PM +0100 11/9/02, Jon Glass wrote:
>Unfortunately, no matter how hard you will try, you will never be able to
>send email via any servers but Earthlink's. Earthlink somehow keeps you from
>sending email from any servers but their own. You can use use other email
>addresses, but you must use their servers--at least that was the situation
>about 15 months ago when I was using Earthlink. I tried to send via other
>servers (mac.com for instance) but I couldn't. I had to use the Earthlink
>servers in order to send.
Yep, they block all outgoing access on port 25 (SMTP) except to
their servers. The only way I could find to get around it was to use
an SMTP server that was listening on a different port. Which is just
one other reason I switched ISPs when I got DSL.
Regards,
- Lou Forlini
Software Engineer
System Support Products, Inc.
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