Re: Free ISP's (fwd)

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> To all concerned with mail and freewwweb:
> They BLOCK port 25 to ALL servers other than smtp.freewwweb.com.
> Therefore if you wish to send email while using freewwweb you are obliged
> to use smtp.freewwweb.com as your smtp smarthost for your MTA (exim,
> sendmail, whatever).
> They don't seem to block it at ALL times, which makes it appear like a DNS
> block out, however it is IS NOT.  It took me several month's (and a lot of
> cussing at exim [which of course was NOT causing the problem) to discover
> this.  If you suspect that I am right you can test for yourself by doing a
> telnet (your smarthost or the direct server you are emailing) 25
> and see it time out.  FREE SERVERS CAN BE ANNOYING ;)

My comments were referring to problems with Iserv, not freewwweb.  Based upon
comments from others their (Iserv's) problems are not isolated to mail.

Systems and Network Administrator
Morrison Industries
1825 Monroe Ave NW.
Grand Rapids, MI. 49505