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For those people who lost most of their hair due to scratching the head trying to fix their mail client app (or to cut short, sending emails)…. this article is just for you.

Its been months that I couldn’t able to send email from outside using port 25 or SMTP standard port and figuring out what is the cause and problem of this only to found out from another article/blog (I googled, duh) that PLDT actually blocks this port because of this statement (less words means less grammar error, so please continue reading this issue in this PLDT site.)

Who the f@ck!ng you are, telling all SMTP servers around the internet world to obligatorily changed their SMTP port to 587?. Although your will is good, but hey there’s a million servers out there fixing other things (their other internal problems) who really doesn’t care if those single or a tens or hundreds of people can’t send and use their email because their ISP blocks the standard port. Can I, a simple person (not even a CEO I think) to tell the company’s I.T manager to please change your SMTP to 587 because my ISP blocks 25 and I can’t use it to send an mail. Do you think they will listen? how about those remaining millions of SMTP servers communicating only on a single SMTP port 25 and not 587? Do you think they will sacrifice on it? come on pal, there’s other things to be done to prevent spamming? please guys (PLDT I.T security division) use all of your possible brain cells. I heard that there’s a thing called brain storming (from the word itself)?

Don’t worry, your not alone on this problem? I myself is also a systems administrator and I really hate spam also. There’s other academic institutions and I.T companies spending billions of dollars on research to fight spamming. I know you wouldn’t spend that much but please port 25 is still (you want it to accept or not) the most common SMTP port or Mail Protocol for sending and receiving emails (don’t argue about IMAP and POP3 okay)!

Wow, took  me almost 5 days to convinced them I was already paid. Hell yeah!

It was my first server downtime this year and It was very disappointing, my up time score was 98.6 % this year and I had a good start in my SEO score…damn. PLDT must know how I just dumped my two previous DSL provider because of this. As a good payer consumer it is my right to complain how the hell they cut off my dsl service without sufficient grounds!

Good thing I have enough time to perform my periodical maintainance which include patching,updating, cleaning (software and hardware also) and of course my favorite- Experimenting of the server!

At long last my dream virtualization a.k.a “cloud computing stuff” was a reality. I successfully able to run Windows Server and SQL Server 2008 on top of my Ubuntu Server O.S! wow!!!! I can now host both Windows and Non-Windows technology at the same time at the same machine. Thanks Google!