OT: Comcast email is driving me crazy!!!

[Garrett Klein]

Try port 587.
relayhost=smtp.comcast.net:587
Put that as your relayhost in /etc/postfix/main.cf.

Hth,

Garrett

chomiak7737 at att.net wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I got my friend set up with Comcast cable; the only snag was that after
> the technician left attempts to use the internet solicited "forbidden" and
> I had to call and get them to actually activate the modem which they of
> course did very easily remotely. But the email is driving me crazy!!! 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
> name=smtp.comcast.net. type =A: host not found; try again. but when I
> googled it seemed to indicate that the servers are mail.comcast.net for
> retrieving--which is working and smtp.comcast.net for sending--which is
> not working. When I tried telneting I say smtp.g.comcast.net but
> trying this got me the same results as above--grrrrrrr!!!
> Also, do I need
> to use port 465 or not?
>
> Tia.
>
>