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John McCabe wrote:

>> I'm on Demon ADSL too (in the Netherlands) and there *is* an option
>> for mailkicks.
>
> ... I'm not convinced about his excuse for this being the case
> (something to do with bandwidth). I seem to remember reading some time
> ago that one of the conditions BT (the suppliers of the ADSL
> connection) put on the home services of those who use its ADSL links
> was that they couldn't supply an SMTP mail feed. This was so that
> small businesses etc didn't reduce their costs by running on a 'home'
> connection and using servers. If anyone knows any more about this it
> would be useful.

AFAIK, Demon in the UK uses a slightly different mail system than here in NL,
but I seriously doubt if they deny running any servers from a home
connection... They advertise "all open service" here, but then again the
modems they give out are bridged and not NA(P)T routers (you can get routed
profiles from their FTP and upload it in your modem if you want to, though).
I think the problem may be with BT supplying the ADSL signal, and blocking
certain ports for home connections. Some do that here, too..

> FWIW, I *can* get an SMTP feed if I go for a business connections but
> that's too expensive for me. Even the cheapest home one will cost me
> more than my current subscription plus telephone bills, but I'm
> getting fed up waiting for pages to download!

Maybe the demon.nl.support group can answer your issue. Lots of tech guys post
there (also from the UK so it's not uncommon to post there in English).
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HTH,
Kuifmans