[X4U] Damn Comcast

[Robert Tillyard]

Comcast are blocking your incoming port 25 so that you can't run your  
own SMTP server. When you send e-mail you send it to someone else's  
server on port 25.

Regards, Rob.

On 6 Oct 2008, at 14:46, wilkinw wrote:

> 2.66, Intel Duo Core Xeon 8 gig memory, 4 - 1 terabyte drives, X.5.5.
>
> I really feel embarrassed about this and should know this. Got an  
> email from Comcast stating that they have blocked port 25 for spam.  
> I don't spam, the only other users of my computer is my wife who  
> only uses yahoo email. So I know that Mac Mail uses port 25. How  
> would this happen? Also even though Comcast states that they have  
> blocked port 25 it still seems like me emails are going out. I sent  
> a test email to my daughter and my work email and they went thru.  
> Any help would be appreciated. I tried to check if you can change  
> the ports in mail but don't see any options, Wayne.