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Old 03-21-2011, 12:50 PM   #28
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I have four Gmail addresses. And I have webmail for my own server and all my plethora of email addresses from there. However, I find webmail annoying, especially because I send a lot of email with "from" addresses that don't really exist (they're aliased to real ones, so I can sort, filter, and if necessary block the replies neatly). AT&T blocks port 25 to keep people from using their own servers for POP/STMP. They don't block port 465, though, which saved me some reconfiguring.

The point is, while I'm entirely capable of dodging their blocking -- and, as I mentioned, if they got too persistent, I'd just buy proxy service -- they're trying to do it anyway. They have no real reason to do so, except for one business reason: being able to charge people $100+ a month more not to block port 25. That is not the kind of company I want to do business with.
Agreed!

They block port 25 here at work from workstations.....but it turns out we developers must have it for testing our apps on our workstations. So... they had to put an exception in for us.
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