08/23/2004 Bonus Bytes

Om Malik | Monday, August 23, 2004 | 7:28 AM PT | 2 comments

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August 23rd, 2004
9:19 AM PT

You saved me.

I woke up this morning and couldn’t send email out of any of my accounts. Three different SMTP servers no less - none of them Cablevision of course.

No word from them nothing, they just closed port 25. I called and their solution? “We don’t allow that for residential customers, but you can upgrade to business class for $110 a month.”

Inexcusable! Just use mail.optonline.net as your SMTP. Let’s see how long it takes for them to enable authentication.

August 23rd, 2004
11:52 AM PT
Karl said:

Yes. Increasingly common. Soon nearly every mainstream ISP will do it…..

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