[Linux-disciples] Port 25 Blocking

Brian Cooke brian at voodoochild.org
Mon Jun 7 19:50:20 EDT 2004


So, today it finally happened.  My DSL provider started blocking port 25 
inbound and outbound unless my ISP is the destination.  Setting up an 
outgoing SMTP server is easy.  I just opened up a new port (say, 250 
instead of 25) and configured my mail client accordingly. 

Anyone have any ideas on getting mail to come in? I was thinking of a 
solution where another mail server (say mail.otherserver.com) would 
accept mail for mail.myserver.com and then transfer to a new 
(non-standard) port where myserver.com is listening for SMTP.   Is such 
a thing possible?  Or maybe a more direct way would be to tell other 
mailservers to just use a nonstandard port when delivering to 
myserver.com.  But I don't know if this is possible, either.

Anyone out there have any suggestions?  I have 3 months before I can get 
off my stupid ISP and find a new one. :)

Thanks,
Brian


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