Comcast blocking port 25? (not what you think)

Travis Roy travis at scootz.net
Mon May 10 11:43:14 EDT 2004


Brian wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 11:20, Travis Roy wrote:
> 
>>Okay.. for the -LAST TIME- my parents are -NOT- I repeat are -NOT- 
>>running any kind of sever at all, NONE! They are trying to connect to MY 
>>server that is NOT on the comcast network to send mail.
> 
> 
> (maybe it's already bee covered?)
> 
> Why don't they just use Comcasts provided SMTP server?  What is the real
> benefit of having them send through your server?


It's always been setup that way.. And I think the comcast server 
requires some kind of auth, and my parents never even setup a 
@comcast.net email address.





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