Questions in regards to Domain and port 80 being blocked

alden.pierre alden.pierre at verizon.net
Fri Jul 23 15:28:01 PDT 2004


JJB wrote:

>Yes that is the 64 million dollar question. And the answer is you
>have no way to doing that, so telling your mail server to listen on
>any other port is useless as all public email servers send email on
>port 25. There is no simple cost free way of side stepping your
>ISP's block on port 25 like you can do with port 80 redirects for
>web servers to get around the ISP port 80 block.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Dick Davies
>Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 6:09 PM
>To: Steve Rieger
>Cc: FreeBSD Questions list
>Subject: Re: Questions in regards to Domain and port 80 being
>blocked
>
>* Steve Rieger <steve at n2sw.com> [0717 21:17]:
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>>You can setup postfix or qmail, or whatever mail server you want
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>to on a
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>>different port, a common one is 225. I have postfix listening on
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>25 and 225,
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>>for this reason
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>Yes, but how do you presuade other mailservers to send you mail
>on port 225?
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port 25 is not block, verizon has already informed me the only port 
blocked is 80.

Thank You
Alden Louis-Pierre


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