Sky Pissing Broadband

[lekky]

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.

[Smokey]

buy a cheap VPN.

[lekky]

have 2.

So I was told to tunnel through to my server and send them that way, woohoo

[KnacK]

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.

[lekky]

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?

[KnacK]

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.

[jitspoe]

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.