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Digital Paint Community => Other Stuff => Topic started by: lekky on April 01, 2008, 07:11:49 PM
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So just got my new Sky broadband, and guess what, they block all outgoing emails apart from those sent from an @sky email address...
So I use the webmail extension for my hotmail and gmail accounts so they arn't affected, but my own domain email just won't send, something which is a minor pain for me, but for my housemate is totally unacceptable as he is self-employed and needs to send email from his own domain.
I tried ringing the support (based in the Phillipines btw), who, after getting through to the manager tried to say the problem was with Microsoft, and that I should try ringing their support. After explaining that I used Thunderbird, the conversation was effectively over as they had no clue what it was.
Any ideas what I should do, if this is even legal and how I could get around it?
EDIT: I use my own smtp server at localhost for outgoing email and this doesn't seem to help.
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buy a cheap VPN.
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have 2.
So I was told to tunnel through to my server and send them that way, woohoo
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who hosts your email server and your roomate's server?
If they are on a nix box, more than likely there is a web based front end, such as squirrel mail that will work.
Sounds like they are filtering all port 25.
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there isn't a webmail front end for us to use. to tunnel to my vps to send/recieve emails do i need to set up an smtp server on linux? and how could i do this?
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you could setup openvpn on your server and install a client on your pc, that way all of your traffic would be encrypted on a port other than 25.
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A lot of providers do this now in order to combat spam (so trojaned machines can't just spit out emails). It's rather annoying, though, when you legitimately need to send email.