BellSloth was nice enough to give me a belated Christmas present: they turned off 3rd party access to port 25 last week.
Oh how nice, and I didn’t get ~them~ anything … let me go dig around in Hobie‘s litterbox, I’m sure there’s something worthy of them in there!!
I had noticed the inability to send nitallica org and thecoven org emails over the weekend, but didn’t actually sit down to look at the problem until last night. I contacted Lunarpages about the issue, as well as BellSloth. LP’s staff has been great about responding quickly and trying to help. Unfortunately I cannot get email on SSL to work, and since LP does not “officially” support it, I am SOL until BellSloth gets their collective shit together and grants me port 25 access.
God forbid I actually use BellSloth’s server … but as I put it to LP’s staff: it is about as reliable as a wet paper sack. Their email service is down more than their DNS is!!
Time to fire off yet *another* complaint to BellSloth, oh my joy can hardly be contained! 
Doc
A lot of ISPs are doing that by default to stem the tide of spam. It’s not doing a damned bit of good though. But, um, I would be remiss in my duties as Cotse’s online helpdesk mover & shaker if I didn’t at least point out that Cotse has solutions to these problems for its customers. :)
*Hugs*
Nitallica
“A lot of ISPs are doing that by default to stem the tide of spam.”
I can handle that they did it. But what burns my butt is that it is now TWO FUCKING DAYS since I first contacted them about it and no one from BS will call me back!
Luckily, Lunarpages had several alternate methods for me to send mail through their servers, so thanks to their very lovely Tech Support and forums peeps, I am back in the proverbial email saddle again.
:cool: