On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 07:33:36PM -0400, James P. Roberts wrote:
> For example, attempting to telnet directly to port 25 on my own server
> (puns01.punsterproductions.com), from a DOS box, on a client machine
> logged into AOL, resulted in a connection to an AOL proxy server,
> instead of my server! Yes, that's right, AOL actually dares to
> hi-jack/intercept packets!!!! It is the moral equivalent of opening
> someone else's mail, and not only that, but answering the sender on the
> recipient's behalf, without the recipient ever seeing the mail!!!!!
Yes, they really suck, and they're not the only ones :-(
My fix to this has been to have exim also listen on 2525 and walk the users
to having their mail client connect to post 2525 instead (many/most allow
that)
Marc
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