If you use SSL (secure sockets layer) for authentication with comcast, it uses port 465, which may not be blocked. It might be worth a try. Norm Norman Cohen nacohen at mac.com "Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable." John Kenneth Galbraith On Jul 28, 2004, at 9:04 AM, Jane wrote: > Thanks Gretch..not really a newbie here but now I realize that port 25 > *is* blocked and they don't want any outgoing mail....I asked...so > there we have the riddle solved. > >