Re: [exim] AOL Probs

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, 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.

AOL redirect port 25 (ISTR reading they were moving to blocking it
outright).

You want to provide a submission service on another port - e.g 587. AOL
(and hopefully most other places) will let this thru.

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Chris Edwards, Glasgow University Computing Service