OT: Comcast email is driving me crazy!!!

[luke]

Some subsections of Comcast's network do allow port 25.  Mine, for 
example, and the one I used to have in another part of this city, both of 
which use different Comcast gateway servers.

Luke


On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, David Poehlman wrote:

> they do block port 25.  you have to send on 587.
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> From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net>
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> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 5:52 AM
> Subject: Re: OT: Comcast email is driving me crazy!!!
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> 
> 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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