SMTP
SBC Ameritech is messing with me. My Outlook client stopped sending email yesterday. I did what I could to test and reconfigure and test some more. No luck. I called my mail host provider, Berbee, Inc. Berbee is a local company that has provided me superb service for over ten years. Maybe Sandhill could save some money by consolidating services, but I like doing business with these people. It’s good to have a host you can count on.
Okay. I called Berbee tech support and talked with Kristen Quigley and Kristen asked if I used SBC. "Are you an SBC Ameritech customer?" she asked me. I sheepishly admitted to it. "They’ve blocked port 25," she said. Okay, I reconfigured the SMTP parameter from mailhost.sandhilltech.com to mailhost.mad.ameritech.net and I can send mail again. Now outbound mail from my home offices goes through SBC’s SMTP service instead of Berbee’s.
My question is, WHY ARE THEY MESSING WITH ME?
