Re: ISP recommendations - reprise

From: Andrew Kerr <andrew_at_no.spam.please>
Date: Mon Sep 24 2007 - 13:08:32 CST

[[ I actually meant to send this a few days ago, but I had some issues]]

> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:49:32 -0600
> Dave Hall <dave-slg@dnh.sk.ca> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone out there have any recent experience with SaskTel? Can a
customer with Static IP's make outbound SMTP connections (ie send mail)
without relaying through SaskTel's servers?
>
> can do with dynamic IP. seems a rather silly thing to do imo.
>
> Bran

Blocking port 25 for users is considered a best practice by Industry Canada:

http://e-com.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/ecic-ceac.nsf/en/gv00329e.html

There are other options, like going to to ssmtp or some sort of
authenticated smtp.

Andrew

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Received on Mon Sep 24 13:08:37 2007

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