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Originally Posted by kfridge
Yes I know which I why I though it strange that they would block it....
I think his problem has been resolved as I have received some emails from him - I think the problem was that he was using Virgins SMTP servers to route emails for his domain, i.e. Virgin are blocking routing emails on port 25 from anything other than their domains. Makes sense I suppose so that spammers can't route email through their servers.
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I noticed for the last few days that i could not send emails from my own domain through Virgin, although I have always been able to before. My host provider also allows me to use port 225 to send out mail and this has the same result. This is NOT using virgins SMTP server, I have never used it, this is using my own hosts SMTP Servers. There is one other one I can use and that still works (thank god!). Apparently even if you try to use an alternative SMTP server, Virgins service still intercepts the emails and sends them via their servers (or not).
Makes sense though, as it reduces spam, but its a pain for people using their connection for home businesses and those who want to use their own host provider and arent allowed to. Im glad my host has a number of ports I can use.