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.

On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 01:00 -0500, Dave Carlson wrote:

> I can still both initiate and recieve SMTP traffic from both of my Comcast 
> (Eagan, Minneapolis) hosts.
> 
> I can't see this persisting too long.  A lot of people don't have or use 
> Comcast accounts and this would be a dealbreaker.
> 
> They already monitor for email drones - I don't know why they would need this.
> 
> -Dave
> 
> On Tuesday 03 April 2007 22:31:07 Jon Schewe wrote:
> > Has anyone else run across this?  As of today I'm no longer able to send
> > mail through my mailserver (mtu.net) port 25 as comcast is blocking all
> > outgoing connections on port 25 for "my protection".
> 
> 


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