<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:14 AM, James McDonald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james@jamesmcdonald.id.au">james@jamesmcdonald.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Rick Bowers wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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If you want to get running again you may want to purchase a mail relay service from someone link dyndns.com...<br>
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They can receive and send email on many ports to allow you to get around the comcast block.<br>
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<a href="http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/relay.html" target="_blank">http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/relay.html</a><br>
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Of course moving to an ISP that isn't blocking those ports might help also.<br>
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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.</blockquote>
<div><br>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?<br>
<br>~Rick <br></div></div><br>