[Tfug] SMTP from cox..

Brian Murphy murphy+tfug at email.arizona.edu
Wed Jul 28 13:51:52 MST 2004


The UofA has a VPN concentrator that'll make it look like you're
on-campus...

https://sitelicense.arizona.edu/vpn/vpn.shtml

Brian

Quoting Jeremy Rogers <JDRogers at optics.arizona.edu>:
> Problem 1
> Well, they finally did it, they killed port 25. My understanding is 
> that COX had been blocking most of port 25 for a long time, but they 
> allowed connections to university domains up until this morning. 
> Argg! Now they recommend using the cox smtp server, but I find that 
> if I set my reply-to/from address to my university address, many 
> recipients don't get my email (possibly some filter that sees 
> mismatched reply-to/from and originating domain???).
>
> Problem 2
> I hate webmail. Especially when its broken microsoft department 
> servers like this one. Microsoft Outlook web access has trimmed years 
> off my life, I'm sure. (my aplogies to anyone who has trouble reading 
> this email because of the stupid, broken IIS format)
>
> So anyone have a good solution to sending email from a cox cable 
> modem using university account? Or is there a way to fix my exim or 
> sendmail so that my email aren't dropped when going through the cox 
> smtp server?
>
> Thanks,
> JDR
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