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		0xffff2 on March 19, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TCP is an underspecified two-node consensus algori... Every home ISP I've had in the last 10 years also blocks 25. Why shouldn't I be allowed to run a mail server from my home?

dorfsmay on March 20, 2018 [–]

This hasn't been my experience. I'm assuming you've check the FW rules in their modem/router?

0xffff2 on March 20, 2018 | [–]

More to the point, I've talked to second line tech support agents who have told me that they block all incoming connections on port 25 as a spam prevention measure.

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