Mediacom appears to require SSL to POP3 access: http://www.mchsi.com/help/read/publisher_02/2002-01-28.01 "If you are off the Mediacom Online network you can still access your e-mail using your e-mail client. However, you will need to configure your e-mail program to connect to our secure e-mail server via SSL." Frank -----Original Message----- From: Jay R. Ashworth [mailto:jra@baylink.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:07 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: ingress SMTP On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:52:48AM -0400, Tim Sanderson wrote:
Anybody not wanting to use their ISP email would notice it. I see filtering 25 FROM the customer as something that is not likely to happen because of this. When a customer buys bandwidth, they want to be able to use it for whatever they choose. This would be just one more restriction giving competitive advantage to any ISP not doing the filtering.
Just as long as consumer ISPs don't start filtering *110* inbound from the net... as AT&T used to. I had a client move from dialup to cablemodem about 10 years ago... and it took us a *week* to get AT&T to admit they didn't accept inbound POP pickups. Client (intemperately) had printed the att.com email address of lots of crap -- they had to keep the dialup for a long time, since at&t wouldn't forward either... Thank ghod I'm out of the jungle now... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Josef Stalin)