[X4U] Damn Comcast

[Daly Jessup]

Wayne 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.

I'm running Tiger, but at least in this version, in Mail's 
Preferences under the Accounts category, and the Account Information 
tab for your account, there is at the bottom a button labeled Server 
Settings. That button takes you to a window where you can change the 
SMTP server. You should change it to port 587.

For your reference, here's a list of common ports and their uses:
<http://www2.opendoor.com/doorstop/ports.html> and there you can see 
that port 25 is an SMTP port, and that port 587 is "Alternate SMTP".

Daly
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