Subject: Re: Question for recent sympatico/fibe customers (outbound mail
Newsgroups: can.internet.highspeed
From: Steve <Steve@london.ca>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:45:45 -0400
Some Guy wrote:
> For anyone who has signed up for sympatico or fibe (or what-ever they
> call it now) residential DSL service, or for those that have helped new
> customers set up their home PC's for a new bell internet hookup:
>
> If you use a mail client (outlook, outlook express, etc) for e-mail, are
> you blocked by Bell from using smtp1.sympatico.ca as your out-bound mail
> server?
>
> I've been told that "new" bell customers are "filtered" or blocked by
> smtp1.sympatico.ca and they must use the microsoft hotmail server. I
> was wondering if indeed that is the case (or just a lot of smoke), and
> if it's true, how "new" does a customer have to be to be blocked.
>
Bugger off Steve.