TM Net to lesson spam by blocking outbound SMTP traffic
I received the above mention title in my email today. I have been receiving a lot of spam emails originated from TM Net’s ADSL broadband dynamic IP addresses. I am glad that at last they have finally come out with a solution to lesson spam by blocking outbound SMTP traffic from its dynamic IP addresses. Hopefully this solution will not interfere with other customers which are using fixed IP addresses. Please see below screen shot for more info.
A simple guy trying to put his name into the WWW place.
December 4th, 2007 at 8:49 am
Good also as most of enterprise user using the streamyx won’t get blacklisted due to those dynamic smtp open relay Good job Telekom.
December 4th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
hopefully this helps man, spam has been increasing the this past week…. my mail box has been overwhelmed…:(
December 5th, 2007 at 8:45 am
Izzit means that i cant use thunderbird to send gmail?
December 5th, 2007 at 9:47 am
simon & danny, hopefully they will do a good job this time but I can still access to some of the remote mail server via port 25. hmm…
dicky, you can use thunderbird to send email via gmail because it is using SMTPS (port 465).
December 5th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
Yup, some mail server still can be access via port 25. I suspect TMnet is doing the blocking phase by phase on the IP range as not all IP dynamic address is affected.
I’m finding way to force sendmail to sent out email to ISP through port 587. Do you have any idea?