Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 10:18:15 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: alex@aspenworks.com Cc: free <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Earthlink's new policy blocks port 25 Message-ID: <200010281618.KAA02514@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <39F9E05E.2C64C92D@aspenworks.com> References: <39F9E05E.2C64C92D@aspenworks.com>
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> Earthlink, as of it's merger with Mindspring, has decided to block > port 25 on all their services. No longer can an Earthlink dialup > network user access your Sendmail proc at port 25 on FreeBSD. This is a 'good thing', since it keeps folks from buying an Earthlink account for one month and sending out SPAM. (This is almost certainly the reason it was shutdown.) As someone else pointed out, you can set things up on a separate port number or use some sort of SSH port forwarding. This minimizes the SPAM risk, since the only way to get to your server is via the 'non-standard' port or after the host has been authenticated. (The latter is probably easier to do out of the box, and in fact is trivial to setup, even on M$ boxes...) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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