Author: Shea Martin Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] bounced messages
> Your connections to hotmail are consistently timing out. Are you
> running your server on a residential DSL line? My guess is that your
> ISP is blocking outgoing port 25. I stopped using Sympatico years ago
> when they abruptly started blocking _incoming_ port 25, without
> warning; I wouldn't be at all surprised if they've started blocking
> outgoing 25 as well, which is actually a much saner thing to do for
> residential DSL service. If that's the case, you'll have to submit
> messages via your ISP's smarthost.
>
> - Marc
>
> You are correct, I am on sympatico. I guess that is the reason. Thanks
for the help. One more reason to drop them. They also have a DHCP lease
time of 3hrs.
