comcast does it again Port 25

Gerry Hull gerry at telosity.com
Mon Mar 31 22:41:18 EDT 2008


Hey Jeff,

Why not use gmail's servers ?  AUTH-SMTP works fine, and it's free.  When I
used to be
on Verizon Business DSL w/dynamic ip, I would use gmail as my relay on my
CentOS Asterisk box.

Gerry
(In Greenfield, on Verizon Biz DSL, never any port blocking)

On 3/31/08, Jeff Kinz <jkkinz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> Comcast just nailed my port 25 access.
> Can't telnet to port 25 anywhere that I've tried, but port 587 seesm to
> be working lots of places.
>
> I am too much in love with direct control over my email to suffer being
> reduced to 5 emails names and a pop connection for inbound mail, as well
> as
> loathing the idea of losing the control an SMTP connection gives you.  And
> I can't seem to get Comcast to remove the port 25 block as it
> is rumored some have done.
>
> So I am looking for reccomendation for SMTP mail relay services.
>
> My current inbound load is about 3MB, 400 or so emails per day.
> My outbound load is about 4 - 5 per day (averaged).
> But some days will be 20 or 30 a day with 40 or 50 cc's on each.
> (start of soccer season, I'm the local youth league scheduling
> coordinator)
>
> Of course, cheap, reliable and with great customer service
> are always desireable (pick any one.. :-)  )
>
> Ideas anyone?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jeff Kinz
>
> (Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the lord no comcast creep will
> walk across the street in front of my car.  The temptation would
> be difficult to overcome... :-)   )
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