I've had issues in the past with Comcast blocking my mail, both that being
sent and received. Further investigation concluded that Comcast' method was
blocking entire E-Mail servers. Their reason given, "due to spam being
generated from the server". How lame. A work-a-round was found by our ISP
and that was to configure the server as and "authenticated" mail server.
This does require a slight configuration change with the user's e-mail
program. Once this was done, then the issues subsided.
Frankly, I think the approach by Comcast to block entire servers is somewhat
childish an rather unprofessional. I suggest that the ISP operators simply
turn the tables and ban all Comcast servers. That would allow Comcast users
to only communicate with only Comcast users, therefore not receiving mail
nor sending mail to others. This being done, I think Comcast would come to
their senses rather promptly. After all, it is the same method as the
Comcast approach to solving the issue so working it in reverse seems
reasonable. In practice, doubtful.
73
Bob, K4TAX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Smith" <Gary@doctorgary.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 6:53 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] OT:: Test Comcast is at it again
A workable solution is to get a free gmail account. With this comes a
free POP3 account. You then configure your email program to read this
additional email. You will get all your email in both places; at youg
google mail page and in your regular emali program (I use Pegasus at
pmail.com).
This does several good things; you can get your mail on the road from
any internet source and as long as you can access Google from your
computer, google mail will not be blocked from comcast or any other
provider.
Additionally, if your provider is blocked by a reflector, email you
send from your google mail page will not be blocked. Win/Win
And it's free.
Gary
ka1j
(also at ka1j.gary@gmail.com)
Comcast seems to be blocking email from contesting.com....again
Sorry for this OT post.
Ed W3NR
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