[brlug-general] Cox blocking email with numerical IP addresses.

[Petri Laihonen]

Why use cox mail at all?

Only couple months after signing up with cox I realized that the mail 
service (any direction) was not trustworthy. Especially I did not want 
to lose any important business mail, so I decided to start using my own 
mail server entirely. I've had to change my mailing preferences only 
once when cox started blocking port 25. Now I just tunnel it through SSH 
directly to my server. (additional advantage with tunneling outgoing 
mail with SSH is that I don't have to worry about mail sniffing in the 
public places either....until SSH2 becomes vulnerable)

Petri

willhill wrote:
> The only thing that makes a difference is the IP address in the message body.  
> I tried sending it here and I tried sending it to the CCCC general list and I 
> tried sending it to a friend and I tried sending it to two addresses from the 
> debian-people mailing list.  Replacing the numeric address in the body of the 
> message allowed me to get the same mesage through to my friend today.  It's 
> something that I've been doing to share with my family, the BRLUG and the 
> CCCC mail list.  
>
> Really, I'm using plain text messages sent by Kmail through Cox's smtp 
> servers.  Nothing special or fancy.  It's a text body email filter.
>
>
> On Tuesday 29 January 2008 1:20 pm, Scott Harney wrote:
>   
>> Was the "To:" field in your email "To: user at my_homebox_IP_number" or to a
>> DNS-registered name, eg "To: user at my_homebox.dyndns.org"
>>     
>
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