METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

Jeff Kinz jkinz at kinz.org
Sat Mar 11 11:27:01 EST 2006


On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 10:32:39AM -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> The quoted post that he replied to from Brian was talking about sending
> through an alternate server. (Both topics were covered in this thread.)
I wondered.  Thanks Chris.

> 
> Sending out mail over another port to your SMTP server is one solution
> to the problem at hand, assuming you have a server to send it to. If
> your only mail server is hosted on a home cable/dsl connection, I think
> that you're likely making a mistake anyway: the reliability of these
> connections is hardly guarenteed at the consumer level,

Thats for sure.

>  so presumably
> anyone hosting mail from home does have *some* alternative.
Nope.  So far (multiple years) haven't needed it.


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Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.
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