Jason Costomiris on Thu, 31 Oct 2002 22:50:06 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Problems w/SMTP on Verizon DSL, none on Comcast Cable?


On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 07:54  PM, Bill Jonas wrote:

I vaguely recall hearing that Verizon blocks outbound SMTP SYN packets
that are headed outside of their network. And as you mentioned, you can
only use a Verizon email address when using their mail servers. The net
effect is that you can only use your Verizon email address when sending
mail (in a "normal"[1] fashion) from a machine on their network.
(Insert comments about vendor lock-in here.)


[1] Of course, you can always ssh to another host and send mail from
there, or use ssh port forwarding, but I'm talking about what upwards of
98% of their customers know how to do.

Sure, and the old SSH port fwd trick worked fine, but that's a hassle (albeit a rather minor one), but nonetheless...


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