Re: [exim] bounced messages

On 15/11/05, Shea Martin <sheam@???> wrote:

> > 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.

> 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.
>
> Eastlink here I come.

Although be warned that a number of sites are blocking (or at least
running SpamAssassin rules that mark down) senders on dynamic IP
addresses. If you want to send e-mail directly, you should get an ISP
who can give you a static IP in a block that is separate from their
DHCP block.

cheers,
John