> At 08:05 AM 6/10/2004, David Burren wrote:
> >I think you'll find that Bigpond Broadband blocks port 25: the only way
> >you'll get outgoing SMTP is to use their relay or to pay for a static IP
> >(I think the block is off for those).
>
> Somebody should suggest to them that they just silently redirect all the
> port 25 traffic to their own servers rather than blocking it. That would
> probably prevent them getting support calls from people who forgot to
reset
> their mail client's config after returning from a trip or something.
>
> Hopefully they aren't also blocking incoming...
>

No, they aren't. Thank god for that. There isn't any reason for them to
anyway.