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[Tero Pesonen]

On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 14:52 -0500, Larry Shields wrote:
> On 8/9/2011 9:18 AM, Tero Pesonen wrote: 
> > On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 14:33 -0500, Larry wrote:
> > > *This has been the problem, I can not now send any email using TB via 
> > > Charter, for it will not work, so in thinking that maybe GMAIL or KMAIL 
> > > would be better, I have tried it, but I am not seeing any of my postings 
> > > like I used too...
> > > 
> > > I see what you are saying, you sent this email using your SMTP server, 
> > > which is Charter, but like I said Charter will not let me send any email 
> > > via another ISP...
> > You mean that an internet service provider blocks SMTP connections to
> > other SMTP servers than their own, and on all SMTP ports, not just 25? 
> > 
> > Now that doesn't make any sense to me... why would they do that?
> > 
> > If I buy am account at say Fastmail or Tuffmail or Luxsci or whatever, I
> > most certainly will be using their SMTP server instead of some ISP one,
> > which may or may not be up when I need it and probably spews out spam
> > like there was no tomorrow, affecting also my own email delivery.
> > 
> > Tero Pesonen
> > 
> > 
> > 
> The problem has been this, I am not using my ISP Charter.net, I am
> using someone else's ISP, so when I try to get my email from Charter,
> that works fine, it is when I try to send email to charter it does not
> work anymore like it did before...This is the whole problem...This
> persons isp is CenturyLink a dialup, but that should not be the
> problem, what I have now been told by a fellow on the list here is,
> that charter will not let another isp send my mail to charter, you
> have to be directly connected to charter for it too work...
> 
If that is indeed the case, it sounds like a case of a broken ISP to me.

Tero Pesonen