[LeapList] Dumbfounded: SMTP servers giving me size errors ... REVISITED ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 00:42 -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> I seemed to be working this morning.  It was just weird.  At first, I
> thought it was Evolution.  But then I realized it wasn't software, and
> it wasn't just one SMTP server.

Okay, it seems to be a transparent SMTP proxy c/o my hotel's free
Internet.  It's literally delaying outgoing e-mail rather liberally --
sometimes up to 24 hours.

I finally got a flat out blocked e-mail from this transparent proxy
today.  Now I know that's the culprit.  I started playing with some
"SPAM-like" formatted e-mails and got other bounces.

The solution was to switch to a SMTP server on an alternative port.
I.e., Yahoo offers port 587 instead of 25.  That solved it.  Now my
outgoing e-mails are instantaneous again.


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Bryan J. Smith          Professional, technical annoyance
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