[RndTbl] Shaw blocking port 25 on business line

[Gerald Brandt]

Well, Shaw did something. I can send emails without a relay now. Sadly, 
they never contacted me, and the person that was handling the case is 
not returning my calls.

Now, since it seems Shaw gave me some of their dynamic range, my email 
server is blacklisted in a few places.

To say I'm not happy with Shaw would be a gross understatement.

Gerald


On 2020-01-21 12:25 p.m., Gerald Brandt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been fighting with Shaw for days on this. I have what they call a 
> business account with 8 static IPs.
>
> I can telnet mail.shaw.ca 25 and get a connection. So, inside their 
> network, SMTP works.
>
> If I try to telnet to any other server on port 25, i get no 
> connection. e.g. telnet to google email servers fails, telnet to my 
> server in Montreal fails.).
>
> To test that port 25 was open, they had me start Firefox, login to 
> gmail, and send an email from my gmail to my gmail account. that was 
> proof they weren't blocking port 25... Yeah.
>
> Right now, in order to get email out, i am using mail.shaw.ca as a 
> relay. That is not supported, so they are asking me to not do that. I 
> told them if I don't use them as a replay, i can't get email out. They 
> did not understand.
>
> Does anyone have any idea how to get these guys to understand what is 
> going on? Am i using the wrong terminology? I can't see how I can make 
> it any clearer to them that they are blocking port 25 access to any 
> system outside of their network.
>
>
> Gerald
>
>
>
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