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Re:Port 25 will be blocked for South Korea from December by mike-cardwell on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @09:44AM (#3210878)
You usually can still run a mail server on your home connection. The port 25 block usually only blocks outgoing traffic. So you can still receive incoming email on port 25. You just need to make sure that you configure your mail server to smarthost all outgoing email via your ISPs MTA.

If you've got a dynamic IP, please don't even attempt this. If somebody else gets assigned your IP before you have a chance to update the DNS, they could potentially pick up your email.

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Re:Port 25 will be blocked for South Korea from December by uiri on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @11:56AM (#3211529)
Or use fetchmail to receive it and just use the smtp of whatever mail account provider you fetch from. Get your mail under Fourth Amendment protection and get around the port 25 blocking.
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