On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 12:12 +0100, Ron McKeating wrote:
> Hi all, in line with what is accepted as good practise nowadays we are
> trying to move to a situation where all our users use authenticated
> smtp. We are having problems with a user on AOL who seem to grab all the
> port 25 traffic, such that any email he sends comes from their server,
> even though he has our server configured in his client. We have tried
> using other ports but no joy, has anybody found a way round this.
In general I would expect a lot of places to block port 25 outgoing from
random users - Freeserve used to redirect it, Cambridge University block
it.
The official answer to this is to use the MSA port (587) for mail
injection. If AOL block this then there is not much you can do.
Nigel.
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