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Well, with the news that Hotmail will soon be enforcing SPF I decided to get around to working around the Telus firewall that blocks all outgoing smtp traffic except to their spamhole. So I used iptables to route port 8025 to 25. So far so good. I got smtp auth working, but qmail only accepts it if you are using SSL. Ok. Well, everything is in place, lets give it a test. Unfortunately it seems to take 5 minutes for each message to be sent with evolution. I've tried a few things (turn off any qmail and tcpserver reverse lookups) but nothing seems to work. Then I added SPF info to my dns configs. So I have slow outgoing, but it's SPF certified. I blame the Telus firewall somehow. I need to get my hands on a rogers internet connection.