How does using port 587 help in making sure my message isn treated as SPAM ?
We have had problems where UTORmail customers who are traveling and sending e-mail messages using a laptop connected to the local hotel internet connection. The local hotel’s internet provider frequently blocks SMTP port 25, forcing the customer to send mail via the local hotel’s internet provider post office. Sometimes this local hotel post office has been used by other hotel guests to send SPAM, so the hotel post office is on internet lists of offending post offices. This has resulted in the mail sent by the travelling UTORmail customer being treated as spam by UTORmail, by other university post offices, and by other post offices. By configuring the laptop e-mail software to use UTORmail’s port 587, this problem is avoided because you will be sending your messages via the UTORmail post office, not the local hotel’s post office. In addition, some world-wide post offices are beginning to frown on messages whose “From” address doesn’t match the orginating post office. For example, a UTO
