Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

[Dale]

Mick wrote:
> On Friday 27 Jun 2014 21:54:32 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 14:22:09 +0100, Mick wrote:
>>> I would think that your ISP providers in the US will be blocking
>>> outgoing port 25 to stop compromised MSWindows machines spamming the
>>> rest of us.  If you use my suggestion there shouldn't be a problem.
>> It makes no difference whether you address it directly to your ISP
>> address or via an alias. The ISP won't block port 25 connections to its
>> own servers from its own customers, otherwise none of them could send
>> email at all!
> In the US many big players are blocking outbound port 25 for their customers
> as a blanket measure to control spam from botnets, e.g.:
>
> http://www.verizon.com/Support/Residential/internet/highspeed/general+support/top+questions/questionsone/124274.htm
>
> If Dale uses the ssmtp.conf I sent he will be using a different port + TLS
> encryption and should not have a problem.
>
> Even if Dale's ISP does not block port 25 for connections to the ISP's *own*
> mail servers, it may well block it to other providers' mail addresses for the
> same reason.  This was a common practice some years back (pre-Gmail) when ISP
> had started charging for mail services.
>

According to the settings in Seamonkey, it should be port 995 and
SSL/TLS.   I used your "basic" setup which is port 465.  It works tho. 
:-) 

Dale

:-)  :-)