OT: Comcast email is driving me crazy!!!

[Steve Holmes]

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Actually, gmail also supports IMAP and I use that all the time and
mutt supports it beautifully.

I still use msmtp to send mail out so I wouldn't have to mess with
exim on my box to do that complex smtp setup.  Works great here.

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 02:52:01AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote:
> chomiak7737 at att.net wrote:
>> I'm
>> having no problem setting up fetchmail for her to receive email but I
>> can't seem to get sending email right for her. Happen to be using postfix
>> but would be perfectly happy to use ssmtp or whatever other package for
>> which somebody can give me configuration tips. I keep getting an error
>> about:
>> host or domain name not found. Name service error for
>>   
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Are you sure that they don't block port 25?  I know that Cox residential 
> blocks port 25 so it's impossible to run your own MTA.  Generally I would 
> say that it's probably mail.comcast.net but I don't use Comcast.  I'm not 
> sure about port 465, but maybe try smtp authentication.  I would be very 
> surprised if port 25 actually works outside of the Comcast mail servers 
> though as most ISPs block it nowadays.  In that case, you would have to use 
> something like ssmtp which just moves mail off to a smarthost.  There's 
> really no configuration necessary.  If you're on Debian, it will ask config 
> questions when you install ssmtp or you can do dpkg-reconfigure ssmtp 
> instead.  It's really painless to set up.  Also, what if you try port 587?  
> That sometimes is an alternative smtp port.
>
> Personally, I would just use Gmail.  It supports secure pop3, has an 
> accessible web interface, has smtp on port 587 to get around port 25 
> blocks, has a good spam filter, and generally works great!  Mutt or other 
> can probably work directly with pop3s, or you could install stunnel and 
> continue using Fetchmail and Postfix.  Actually I think Fetchmail supports 
> pop3s but I don't use it.  That way if the person gets stuck on a Windows 
> machine, she can still access her Gmail messages.  Everything downloaded 
> with pop3s is automatically archived, even if she deletes it from her local 
> system so mail is never lost.
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