Agree XNet is a bit light on the details, but at least there is a free option and it is few people that will ever notice the "problem" you are having.  With Xtra if you want to access their mail server from another ISP then you need to pay them $2.50 per month for the "service", I have found that XNet is good at not charging for phantom services.

richms: Has xnet started advising people of this crippled nature of their connections yet before signup?

Its very inconvenient, when I was at a mates place on xnet, I had to open a ssl tunnel to my host inorder to send emails.

using your smtp is not viable since it doesnt have, and never will have SPF records pointing to it.

Niel: With Xtra if you want to access their mail server from another ISP then you need to pay them $2.50 per month for the "service", I have found that XNet is good at not charging for phantom services.

Cameronn:

richms: using your smtp is not viable since it doesnt have, and never will have SPF records pointing to it.

There is currently no detail on the website in regards to the block of port 25 by default. I have and will be pushing for some information to be displayed there. This doesn't mean everyone will magically read it before signing up though :)

I have spoken to the Operations team who advise me that SPF records are now pointing towards our SMTP service.

freitasm:

Niel: With Xtra if you want to access their mail server from another ISP then you need to pay them $2.50 per month for the "service", I have found that XNet is good at not charging for phantom services.

This is no longer the case. Xtra is not charging for this anymore.

richms: I had to open a ssl tunnel to my host inorder to send emails.

richms: Never seen 26 in use on the ones I deal with, a few have 587 as its recommended in some rfc somewhere.

cokemaster:

freitasm:

Niel: With Xtra if you want to access their mail server from another ISP then you need to pay them $2.50 per month for the "service", I have found that XNet is good at not charging for phantom services.

This is no longer the case. Xtra is not charging for this anymore.

That stopped being the case quite a while ago.
With the likes of YahooXtra and Officemail - thats always allowed remote connections (with SSL by default too!).

The questions I'd have would be (referring to Niels post here):
A. Why is Xtra getting involved in the first place?
B. Why wasn't any fact checking or research performed? This is something that can be confirmed rather easily.

The answer to A. is that it is off topic and never deserved to be brought into this thread. Stay on topic.

sleemanj: ISP's block 25 quite commonly, telling your customer "change the outgoing server port to 26"

Niel:

cokemaster:

freitasm:

Niel: With Xtra if you want to access their mail server from another ISP then you need to pay them $2.50 per month for the "service", I have found that XNet is good at not charging for phantom services.

This is no longer the case. Xtra is not charging for this anymore.

That stopped being the case quite a while ago.
With the likes of YahooXtra and Officemail - thats always allowed remote connections (with SSL by default too!).

The questions I'd have would be (referring to Niels post here):
A. Why is Xtra getting involved in the first place?
B. Why wasn't any fact checking or research performed? This is something that can be confirmed rather easily.

The answer to A. is that it is off topic and never deserved to be brought into this thread. Stay on topic.

A moderator asked me questions in this thread, so this response can not be considered off topic. In fact, it is an explanation of why my previous response in not off topic. Freitasm made a brief correction on my response, and that is where it should have ended. So in fact the moderator is dragging this out.

A. In a response to the topic I made the statement that XNet will give it to you for free if you need it (most people don't), and then in the same paragraph stated that Xtra (as an example) charges for such type of "services" and in the same sentence stated that XNet in general does not charge for such things. So every sentence in the paragraph was about XNet and about the topic, with the Xtra example thrown in to have something to compare with.

B. Research was done, it was about 1 month ago that I looked into this and found the statement on the Telecom web site. I did not consider a month to be long enough for things to have changed. Perhaps it changed long ago, but that statement was found on the Telecom web site a month ago where they explained about port 25 blocking and how to get it unblocked.