If you have your own domain and are using your own SMTP server to send mail then it will be blocked as I have found out in the past week.
No matter there is a resolution (well a couple or three).
You can for $5.00 a month, Dial up or $20.00 a month Broadband purchase a Static IP address or option 3 use another provider who doesn't filter (or charge for IP addresses).
A couple of questions come to mind here, why is a static IP address difference prices when regardless of the service you use it's just an IP address and secondly why are we being charged for IP addresses in the first place when they are actually distributed free of charge worldwide?
Funnily enough this doesn't occur on my mobile broadband card.
Other implication I've just thought of is that any businesses using the new and improved xtra services will also be hit with this problem.
That's a very good start but, as you probably know, some spam still gets through.
To help tackle this problem, we're planning to filter email traffic on the email Port 25.
Put simply, Port 25 is the dedicated Internet port that is used for sending email. Unfortunately, it's also used by spammers to send unwanted email and new viruses and worms will often spread across the Internet using this port. That's why we want to filter it.
In nearly all cases, making this change will not affect any of the Xtra services you use because we won't be filtering out email that's sent using our dedicated email servers. The same is true of web based email programs like XtraMail.
If you have an questions about port 25 filtering please email port25@xtra.co.nz.
Filtering Port 25 will start on 26 April 2006 and will be phased in over several months for all of our customers.
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