1and1 Blocking Port 25

nospam@example.com (Kevin Locke)
Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:26:17 -0700
System Administration

After a bit of frustration at Joomla! for discarding important error information, and phpMailer for not providing a method of retaining that error information, I have discovered that my client's web host, 1and1, blocks outbound connections on port 25 to all hosts except smtp.1and1.com. This wouldn't be a significant problem if I hadn't setup SPF on their domain.... Looks like it is time to open up an alternate port on the mail server....

Update: 1and1 is blocking ports 465 and 587 in addition to port 25. Great....