Re: I also can't send email...

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On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 18:44:40 GMT, Brian Petersen wrote:

> My mother uses MSN and also began having problems sending e-mail via
> smtp.email.msn.com several days ago. I discovered that the problem is
> being caused by MSN's dial-ups.


> ...dial-up providers will typically
> firewall outbound port 25 connections to all servers except those its
> client ISPs specify.

> Until MSN's head and ass learn to communicate with one another, you guys
> might be able to get around this issue by checking for alternate dial-ups
> in your areas. Sometimes, you can find one that doesn't do ANY outbound
> port 25 connection filtering (POPsite is notorious for that). If you can
> find one that's unfiltered, you'll be able to access smtp.email.msn.com.
>
> http://support.msn.com/accessnumbers.aspx
>
> In my mother's case, I tried all of her local MSN numbers, but all were
> port-25-except-to-your-own-ISP's-SMTP-IP-address filtered. So in her
> case, my solution was configuring her PC to dial into my grandmother's
> seldom-used Earthlink account until MSN's clowns fix this. =)

Somebody needs to swing a "clue x four" to the heads of the MSN mail
administrators. More and more, email submission needs to be on the RFC 2476
designated "Message Submission" port: port 587. When "smtp.email.msn.com"
is configured to listen on port 587, port 25 blocks will not be a problem.

--
Norman
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~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint
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