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Re: Port 25 - Blacklash


From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja () darkwing uoregon edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:47:59 -0700 (PDT)


On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Daniel Golding wrote:



Do all of Comcast's markets block port 25? Is there a correlation between
spam volume and the ones that do (or don't)?

In any event the malware is already ahead of port 25 blocking and is
leveraging ISP smarthosting. SMTP-Auth is the pill to ease this pain/

Really smtp-auth will solve it? or do most windows mua's cache your password?

- Dan


On 4/26/05 2:49 PM, "Hank Nussbacher" <hank () mail iucc ac il> wrote:


On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Adam Jacob Muller wrote:

Doesn't seem to be stemming the tide of emails from Comcast though:

<http://www.senderbase.org/?searchBy=organization&searchString=Comcast%20Cable>


-Hank

For example, about 2 months ago, comcast decided to block outgoing
port 25 from my entire neighborhood. I called comcast, and while
sitting on hold I had the idea to setup a ssh tunnel to a machine at
work and viola problem solved before anyone from comcast even
answered the phone.



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