28 May
2004
28 May
'04
6:12 a.m.
Hi,
On 28 May 2004, Patrick LEMMERS wrote:
I can confirm, for the last few days Coditel has been
blocking outgoing
connection to port 25 to ANY machine !!!
Ouch? Even their own mailserver?!? If that's the case, somebody
royally screwed up...
Since this morning they are at least allowing
connections to their
official smtp relay (smtp.coditel.net) ...... Well done guys !!!
Hmm... looks like a sensible anti-virus-spreading and anti-spamming-
from-their-own-network technique to me.
It looks like they are trying to force their users to
use only their
mail server for outgoing mail .... :-(
Yup, and as a SysOp, I can feel their pain. IMHO they're better
off this way, dealing with the wrath of a very few clued customers,
instead of dealing with thousands of abuse messages because of
viruses and/or spam.
Depending on their implementation, they possibly could adjust
filter settings based on authentication, so maybe they could
offer "100% free-as-in-speech" access to the 'net to a select
few people. If you can guarantee them you'll never catch an
MS Windows-based virus, maybe they'll let you have that setting ;-)
I do agree that they should inform their customers about such
measures, and they'll have to guarantee excellent availability
on their mailserver.
Greetings, Eric