http://www.johnmasone.com Comments only for my blog Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:54:48 -0500 en http://www.johnmasone.com/article.php?id=150 14555a1e Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:15:43 EST MomLena: I am so very unhappy with Comcast at this point that I am going to shop around. Also don\'t they know that bad news travels faster than good news? If someone is happy with something they might tell a person or two, but if they are angry & very unhappy they will tell every one they know & anyone who will listen. It\'s bad enough that they did this but the fact they did not inform customers is wrong. Most customers may not know what to do or even understand it. http://www.johnmasone.com/article.php?id=206 a6afc1c5 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:28:41 EST John Masone: I know you are but what am I. http://www.johnmasone.com/article.php?id=206 11b200c1 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:27:35 EST Schuyler: Pretty. http://www.johnmasone.com/article.php?id=151 4d01014a Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:32:35 EST haha: sounds like he was beating around the bush- probably because making 12.00 hour is not enough training to get into end user personnal issues...you can open this port yourself as long as it is not being used by anything else- shouldn\'t be a comcast issue- trust me- this is the default port that telnet uses and i never have a problem with telnet with a default port of 25.....you probably mean that thier McAfee FireWall on your pc is blocing it...if this is the case spend 50 dollars and buy Norton with more options to unblock ports- or just use ZoneAlarm..... http://www.johnmasone.com/article.php?id=150 48514654 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:52:36 EST SMTP2525: If you\'re interested, check out Unified eMail. They provide secure SMTP Relay service over alternate port 2525. http://www.unifiedemail.net/Service/SMTP-Relay/ http://www.johnmasone.com/article.php?id=150 ff4c8750 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:54:02 EST Turgut Kalfaoglu: Just because of such problems, I have configured our content provider\'s servers to accept mail on 25,587,1025 and 2525 from our customers. If you need a flexible and personalized mail/web server hosting, please contact me. that\'s info (at) zenitbilisim.net Regards, turgut http://www.johnmasone.com/article.php?id=150 266ac45d Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:08:45 EST george marshall: I had the exact same problem. What a pain in the ass this was. My solution was to use TZO\'s store and forward solution ($89/year - thank you comcast) to redirect from port 25 to 2525. In additon I had to relay host for messages leaving my local domain via smtp.g.comcast.net and set up authenication. That\'s the only solution I have found so far. http://www.johnmasone.com/article.php?id=150 91770559 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:42:03 EST chkno: I had a more pleasant experience. I overloaded my machine (swap-trashing for a few hours), which caused local mail delivery (of spam) to timeout, causing those (spam) messages to be bounced (to addresses in forged From: fields). That is, it looked like I was sending spammy email (the bounce messages). Several hours later, Comcast\'s filter cut in at 1:00am and blocked my port 25. I noticed at 2:45am. I contacted Comcast Support via their online chat service, explained what happened, and requested that my port 25 be unblocked. By 3:30am, it was unblocked and I had working email service again. (It took about five minutes for the change to propigate from their interface to actually unblocking the port. They were not aware that there would be a delay, and this caused some slight confusion.) http://www.johnmasone.com/article.php?id=150 4246d5a9 Wed, 27 May 2009 16:01:53 EST jdh: Configure outbound email to smtp.comcast.net, but on port 587, not the default port 25. Do not use SSL. Use password authentication. http://www.johnmasone.com/article.php?id=150 f55b14ad Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:45:17 EST Chuck Carner: OMG! I have just gone through the very same thing! I was told that I was sending large volumes of SPAM. I checked my logs for the say they claimed this happened and there was zero! Zip, Zilch none! (I am also a Sys. Admin and keep detailed log files) I asked comcast to provide me with a log file and they said its against their policy. I play in a band, and host a web page and email because it looks more professional. We play many benefits, and non-profit functions. there is on average 6 emails a week sent out and about the same coming in. I wonder how much I missed because if this lame SPAM excuse. We were to play a benefit to help out local womens shelters, and it was cancelled because they could not contact me. I am livid! they also told me that they could not open port 25 up again for me. I said to shut off my phone, internet, and Cable TV because I was not paying the bill.....suddenly they were able to open the port again. I just wonder for how long