Comcast blocking port 25? (not what you think)

[Steven W. Orr]

On Monday, May 10th 2004 at 10:52 -0400, quoth Travis Roy:

=>Steven W. Orr wrote:
=>
=>I just find it stupid that they would do something like this. It's one 
=>thing to block port 80 since running a webserver is against the AUP/TOS, 
=>but to block access to an outside mail server smells of crushing the 
=>competition and limiting choice.

It's actually worse than that. There are a number of domains that will not 
accept any email from me if it's delivered directly to them. This is the 
result of RBLs discriminating via dynamic IP address pools. The solution 
is to add yet more and more entries into my mailertable file in sendmail.

I admit that I was certainly peeved when I was blocked from sending any 
email to Red Hat lists. I needed 

redhat.com      esmtp:smtp.mail.rcn.net

to fix it. :-(

You'd think that if anyone would allow reception from a dynamic address 
they would.

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