28 Oct
2011
28 Oct
'11
9:12 a.m.
On 28/10/11 11:03, Kevin Whelan wrote:
That article states " From 1st May 2010, we are blocking unauthenticated
SMTP sessions on our network for mobile broadband and handset data users."
I am not sure that this will be the cause as its an encrypted session not
Well, that is my hypothesis. They can't check whether it's
authenticated or not if it's encrypted, so they don't allow
it, just to be on the safe side.
It's the sort of decision that telecoms management would make.
unauthenticated but yes, they will be proxying the
connection (all major
carriers in the UK and Europe do) for speed and bandwidth reasons.
Do they proxy connections other than HTTP? How does that work if you
are using HTTPS?