message relay != message submission : )
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Why would I run my own mail server when I can use yours?
(Sits in a dark corner quietly, slightly grinning)
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Eh, I just use AOL and plain text CC everything to ratbasterds@nsa.gov. I hope they got my Christmas cards as well.
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I see what you did here.
(grumbles over forensic tools)
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Back to the question at hand:
- Donât know where my notes are on this (still sick, so still fuzzy-thinking);
- This was a few years ago, so the names and numbers have probably changed anyway.
When I was having a horror of a time with AT&T (why are monopolies a good thing?) I finally did the research to find out the name and direct email address for the CEO. Not the head of any divisionâŚthe CEO himself. I kept that email as short and professional as humanly possible, and I laid out for him how incompetent his employees were making his company look.
Within a short time, I got a call from his assistant. She gave me both her direct line work number and her personal cell phone number (astonishing, but true), and told me that she would be personally overseeing the problem until it was fixed. It took a while, having been FUBAR up to that point, but it really did get fixed as a result. And yes, there were times I called her on that personal cell phone, although I made sure to be reasonable about the time factor, knowing what time zone she was in.
You have to go outside the expected customer service track to get results.
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I could have sworn they were now requiring two-pass ROT13 now.
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Your ISP blocking 25 only matters if youâre running the server from your house, and I donât know anyone who does that any more. Hosting is cheaper than an overpriced âbusiness-classâ connection that doesnât block ports. Nobody should be using 25 for MUAâMTA.
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Unless you know Cory or myself, since obviously we both do.
My house has contained an efficient and standards compliant network for well over 20 years. I was sending and recieving email from my basement before anyone at comcast knew what IP stood for.
The reason nobody does it anymore is because corporate giants have crushed all the mom & pop ISPs that used to provide unfiltered Internet. All the remaining providers are practicing Orwellian traffIc shaping and port blocking.
Edit: I had a hunch I should have said âCory, @shaddack or myselfâ! 
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Do you know me well enough to invalidate this claim?
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I do happen to have an excellent local mom & pop ISP thatâs been successful and growing. What I donât have at my home is reliable power (much less generator backup) or on-call DC staff or security guards or a clean agent fire-suppression system. Itâs fun to have a basement full of blinkenlights but at least in my case it doesnât make sense.
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You donât need them. Tested, proven experimentally.
I have neither (though the power is fairly stable and a decent UPS rig takes care of the short blackouts and messages my phone that the power went down, and I wouldnât mind the fire stuff but the bureaucrats banned the halon agents which therefore got a bit too expensive, some bulk organic chemistry synthesis is being considered).
To run a server for yourself you donât need most of the enterprise-level crap. If it is low-utilization, you can even have a raspberry pi class hot spare to get you through eventual malfunctions, or stomach the couple hours of downtime once per year or three.
My jealousy is indescribable. Seriously.
I am an accomplished dumpster diver. Ow! Sprained my arm patting myself on my back! Iâve got four 30 amp UPS units (gave the other four away).
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Those are sweet! I also like to rebuild UPSs, but mine are nowhere that big.
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Intellectual property?
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