Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:16:30 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Allen" <doomnix@comcast.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Anyone have Comcast for an ISP? Message-ID: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCAEIFCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <1206167593.4163.4.camel@Caffiend.org>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Allen > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 10:33 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Anyone have Comcast for an ISP? > > > Does anyone on here have comcast for an ISP? I use them and today I was > messing around on a machine I use for FTP service over my LAN (Not > accessible from the net so I'm not worried about using it for back ups) > and anyway, I wanted to set up one of my comcast accounts on it so I > could do as I've done for years, and use SSH to log into that machine > and use fetchmail to grab my email off comcast, and then use Mutt to > check it since I really like Mutt. > > Well, I got sendmail up ad tested that it was working and it was working > fine. After that I tried sending a test email with Mutt. > > For some reason ti failed even though it was the backed up copy of my > Muttrc that I used to use on EVERY machine I used mutt on. I always > backed it up because I had it looking really nice with colors and also > my email address was in there and I built in a mini addy book for my > friends and mailing lists I'm on so I didn't have to worry about an > address book being deleted by accident. > > Well, it failed horribly. I can't send an email because it's blocked, > and also, using fetchmail isn't exactly working either and I can't stand > how getmailrc works.... > > So does anyone here use Comcast and Mutt for an email client that could > maybe reply and let me know how they do it? Id' like to use Mutt and > also I do like how simple fetchmail is to use, so fi you use these and > have Comcast for internet please reply with how you did it. I'm googling > right now but everything I find isn't exactly helpful, so if anyone here > uses Mutt and has Comcast please let me know how you did it. > What you have available in the e-mail realm when you are on the Comcast network: For e-mail CLIENTS you may retrieve mail via the standard IMAP or POP3 ports from a remote non-comcast mailserver. For e-mail CLIENTS you may send mail through a remote non-comcast mailserver using the submission port 587 and authenticated SMTP. For e-mail SERVERS you can use fetchmail to pretend the server is a mail client, then redistribute the mail internally. However you cannot use sendmail to send out outgoing mail to port 25 on remote mailservers - unless it's to the comcast mailserver. Comcast's residential TOS prohibits servers and they enforce this by blocking incoming traffic going to SMTP, IMAP and POP3 ports. Tedhome | help
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