From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 23 21:52:53 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7190E1065675 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:52:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (blue.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F26DF8FC17 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:52:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1NLqpL8097228; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:52:51 GMT (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Message-ID: <4D6581B3.6090101@qeng-ho.org> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:52:51 +0000 From: Arthur Chance User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101218 Thunderbird/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Tillman References: <1298158643.73477.1.camel@z6000.lenzicasa> <764705.98740.qm@web36504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <764705.98740.qm@web36504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: How to forward old root mails to an external email address? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:52:53 -0000 On 02/23/11 19:32, Bill Tillman wrote: > The only problem with this is that unlike 10 years ago, today almost all ISP's > block anything coming down port 25 unless you have an account that allows your > e-mail server to work. And they of course charge for this. I used to enjoy my > own private e-mail server but these days if the ISP's don't charge you for it > they block it. Not true with my ISP (Zen in the UK). They block port 25 by default, but open it if you ask without any charge. They're more expensive than the usual prolefeed ISPs and presume competence from their customers.