Re: [vps-mail] port 5190 is blocked now too

[Steve Yates <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:07:19 -0700
"Mark A. Sharkey" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As more and more ISP's starting blocking port 25 for outgoing mail, we 
> began telling all our clients to simply use port 5190 and all was fine. 
>   Now we are finding some ISP's that are blocking that port as well.

	I believe the standard ports now are supposed to be 25 (arriving
mail) and 587 (smtp auth).  5190 I think is AOL's Instant Messenger port
(?) and Verio uses it under the theory that it will rarely be blocked by
firewall(?).

 - Steve Yates
 - ITS, Inc.
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