[Tfug] Cox and Port 25

[Matthew T. Eskes]

While they don't block those ports Comcast is up to their own form of
nastiness that, imo is much worse than what cox is doing. So I have cox. :D

-----Original Message-----
From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org] On Behalf Of
Calvin Dodge
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 2:41 PM
To: Tucson Free Unix Group
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Cox and Port 25

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Jim Secan <jim at nwra.com> wrote:
> Just switched to Cox and found out the hard way that they appear to be
> blocking port 25.  I use gmail and use my own local mail client rather
than
> their web mail interface.  After some swearing and googling I found a
> work-around, using port 587 rather than 25.  So far, it works.

They also block inbound port 80 and 443, which makes it a little hard
to develop Google Health apps.

Meanwhile, Comcast here does NOT block those ports OR outbound
requests to port 25.

Calvin Dodge

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