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I'm with bigpond and can't send E-mail

Ok, this is an easy one to answer. When you signed up with us we created a mail server for you - normally that would be mail.example.com.au (where example is your domain name). You should be using that mail server to send and receive E-mails relating to your domain and not the bigpond servers, or any server belonging to another provider.

Bigpond, in there big brother wisdom, decided that nobody on the bigpond network can send any E-mail unless it's through the bigpond mail server. Down side of this is that eventually the bigpond mail server will block you if your return E-mail is anything other than

So, bigpond block the standard outgoing SMTP Port of 25. In an effort to get around that problem we have told your mail server to listen on ports 25 and 2525. You should set your outbound mail server to port 2525 and your messages will get through.

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