Getting around SMTP server blocking...

[ddrueding]

So it appears that the network I'm now on (college campus cable-modem) won't allow traffic through to external SMTP servers. I can't call them to complain as I'm not supposed to be here in the first place, and I don't have a user name for theirs for the same reason. If anyone has any suggestions I would LOVE to hear them.

 

[Will Rickards]

Have you tried other ports?
Usually they just block port 25 traffic.
The other ?standard? port is 587.

 

[sechs]

How about tunneling your connection?

When I worked for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, we used to tunnel through the squid server using HTTP. Slow, but effective.

 

[ddrueding]

How about tunneling your connection?

When I worked for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, we used to tunnel through the squid server using HTTP. Slow, but effective.

Err...I don't know how to do this.

Since I am in control of the Exchange server on the other end of the connection, I'm trying to set up other ports. We'll see how it goes.

 

[ddrueding]

I tried telling my SMTP server to listen on non-standard ports, and for outlook to send via these non-standard ports, and I'm getting the same errors...

"SMTP server not responding"

Thoughts?

 

[Fushigi]

Webmail?

 

[ddrueding]

Webmail?

Really don't like it, but would use it if my partner hadn't broken it on our Exchange server...stupid DotNetNuke....

 

[Howell]

http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=12103

POP Gmail

 

[ddrueding]

I've got my GMail account working, but I'd like to be able to send from my other accounts (the ones I own and do business under). I will likely be living here for at least a few months and would like to be able to do business as usual.

It's looking more and more like I'll just need to set up a VPN link to my office and tunnel all my traffic through it.

 

[Howell]

http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=12103

POP Gmail

I don't even receive mail at my gmail account. For that matter I only use IMAP. It works fine. I would not recomend it for a long term solution though.