[AccessD] Email Problem

Hi Jim

The simple method is to ask the ISP to open that port. Some do it for the asking (and telling why), some require a "pro" or "business" account.
Another method is to use port 587. Quite a few ISPs support that, some only for secure mail, first of all Gmail. However, if you can handle that, Gmail is free but their mail servers are slower than most and an account has some unofficial limit of about 500 to 750 outgoing mails per day - probably not an issue for you.

Also, you could have your app hosted. Every hosting provider offers an in-house SMTP server available for the clients' sites and applications. This doesn't need to be very expensive. Here's an European provider we use a lot:

  http://www.unoeuro.com/products.php?setvat=false

/gustav

>>> accessd at shaw.ca 05-10-2008 20:48 >>>
Hi All:

While we are on the subject...

I have a number of clients who have been set up with email from their
servers through ASP/ASP.Net SMTP, through their own web sites, using IIS.
Their systems do not have a real mail server on the system but transfer the
email request to their ISP provider which basically re-forwards the mail.
This method has been working fine for years. 

Now many if not all ISP are blocking port 25 (the mail out port), which
supposedly stops spammers  The issues is that if the mail going out, from
the client servers is not being sent through one of client's email accounts
(username and password need to be provided), it is blocked.

I do not know if many have that problem but it will basically shut down any
client, mailing from their internal web sites that do not have their own
mail servers installed.

Has anyone dealt with this issue and has found a simple solution?

TIA
Jim