OT: ?? Comcast blocked my port 25

[Rick]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:14 AM, James McDonald
<james at jamesmcdonald.id.au>wrote:

> Rick Bowers wrote:
>
>>
>> Do any of you have any words of wisdom? I plan to call Comcast, but would
>> like to understand why blocking port 25 also affected my inbound messages
>> and why only one account works. I'm guessing that a single account
>> ID/password is being used. I use Eudora as my mail client.
>>
>>
>>  If you want to get running again you may want to purchase a mail relay
> service from someone link dyndns.com...
>
> They can receive and send email on many ports to allow you to get around
> the comcast block.
>
> http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/relay.html
>
> Of course moving to an ISP that isn't blocking those ports might help also.
>
> Thanks, James. As a residential customer, I don't think I have many choices
> for ISPs. The town selected Comcast for cable, I can use ISDN perhaps. FIOS
> does not seem to be available here yet.  I don't know of any other options.


I'll look into the mail forward. But if I can't receive any mail currently,
I'm not sure that will help. I understand why sending mail fails -- Comcast
blocked the port -- but I still don't understand why receiving mail fails?
Which port does the mail server (by default, since I have not changed
anything) listen on?

~Rick
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