XPost: alt.comp.software.thunderbird   
   From: address@is.invalid   
      
   Dude,   
      
   > ***** ***** offers a full email service for $20 per year. For this   
   > price, you will receive 10 GB of storage and 300 email accounts.   
      
   Sounds nice.  But is that a good offer ?   
      
   > You need your own domain to take advantage of this offer.   
      
   Ah well, not for the average person than.   
      
   > They have POP/IMAP and bypass ISP port 25 blocking!   
      
   The ISPs don't block those ports (25 is just one of them), they are just not   
   connected to their email server/service anymore.  Instead they have opened   
   up the SSL variants of them.   And for a good reason.   
      
   > This is very important for some, especially when using an old   
   > email client on an unsupported operating system.   
      
   If you can reach the company you are advertising using an old email client   
   than proves that the ISP is not blocking port 25 (or the other ones).   
      
      
   Having said all that, the *easy* solution would be to use a small   
   wrapper/proxy program (stunnel comes to mind), which accepts non-encrypted   
   email connections, and converts them them to SSL.   
      
   Presto, your old-but-well-known email client will again work with those ISPs   
   who have disallowed un-encrypted access to their mail servers.   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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