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Any other traffic on port 25 just hangs there. That's not horrible, but I don't like it.


One of the UK ISPs transparently forwards all out going traffic on port 25 to their own smart hosts. If you are going to stop direct port 25 connects to the rest of the world this seems like a better way to do it.

I will soon have two DSL connections, one 512/256 from an ISP that encourages people to have a "full" Internet connection (they gave me 32 IP address without a fight) and one 2048/256 from an ISP that does cheap high speed connections. So my servers will have one line and we get to surf on the other one...

...and all for half the price that my old 1024/256 line used to cost.
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