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Good question. I spoke with their online support last night and they said this was to protect me from viruses. I told them I don't need their protection, but their supervisor said they can't turn off the block.<BR>
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On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 01:00 -0500, Dave Carlson wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">I can still both initiate and recieve SMTP traffic from both of my Comcast </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">(Eagan, Minneapolis) hosts.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I can't see this persisting too long. A lot of people don't have or use </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Comcast accounts and this would be a dealbreaker.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">They already monitor for email drones - I don't know why they would need this.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">-Dave</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Tuesday 03 April 2007 22:31:07 Jon Schewe wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Has anyone else run across this? As of today I'm no longer able to send</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> mail through my mailserver (mtu.net) port 25 as comcast is blocking all</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> outgoing connections on port 25 for "my protection".</FONT>
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