Trevor Smith wrote:
On October 8, 2004 5:27 pm, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
In the latter case, if your telco does not allow connections to foreign
smtp servers they do not provide full-featured internet access and you
should ask them to cease and desist or change your provider.
To recap:
When I send from school (connected through my school's Internet connection), I connect to the mail server provided by my web/mail hoster (mail.haligonian.com) without problem.
When I send from home (connected through my local telco's Internet connection, which I pay for) I can not connect to my web/mail hoster's smtp server. The error is "could not connect to host mail.haligonian.com".
Is my telco filtering my access to my smtp server at haligonian.com? This is something that hadn't occurred to me (I assumed I had some glitch because I use an "unsupported OS").
Trevor,
Most likely your ISP is blocking outgoing (& incoming) port 25...SMTP. Its a common and wise trend with ISPs. They force you to use their SMTP. They don't want to get on spam lists is the reason why. Its a great idea. You might contact your hosting service @haligonian.com and see if they have an alternative SMTP port that you can use. I personally let my clients use port 2025, though 2525 is also a popular choice.
-Phillip
