> Again, I've no idea what relevance that has to anything I've written. > > All I ever said in his thread was that I don't in general rate ISP mail > very highly, and that if an ISP blocks outgoing connections to port 25 > you can still connect to a third-party server through either the > submission port or the SMTPS port. > > Despite the fact that I repeated ad nausem that I'm not talking about > connecting to ISP mail servers, Res kept repeating over and over again > that it's not supported by all ISPs. > > And then you chimed-in with your contribution - which I think is > overpriced. > > > Just my $0.02
My apologies. You are right that I should have read more into the thread. People can indeed send email in a variety of ways to get around the ISP limitations put in place to block spam. I myself do that from my ISP to get it through to my company mail, by using, as you said, another port (in my case, SMTPS with SSL) as do several of my clients (as their providers don't allow them to send email if the email address isn't that of their ISP -- another very stupid rule).
