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Hi Doug,
Why would they do that? I thought the purpose of ISP's blocks on port 25 were to help isolate machines running rogue compromised bots spewing out spam and sending it directly to other recipient mail servers.
I don't know why they did it.They didn't tell me that they were going to do it, but all connections on that port number stopped working (including using telnet to test it) as if blocked by a firewall. Switching it to a different port immediately solved the problem, but I didn't want to keep doing that over and over.
They wouldn't normally be listening on anything other than port 25, so why block 2525 and 8025. Did you ISP actually detect you had email traffic on those ports and shut them off?
That's my guess -- though I don't really understand why it'd matter to them that I was sending it.
I've never had trouble using port 2525 with either of my ISP's in getting mail to smtp.com's servers.
That's good, I'm glad it has worked for you. But, I'm not making this up -- they really blocked those ports for me!
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