RCN pointers

[drew at drewtaylor.com (Drew Taylor)]

On Oct 13, 2005, at 11:16 PM, Bill Horne wrote:

> Drew Taylor wrote:
>>
>> We switched from Comcast to RCN today. So far so good, but any   
>> pointers I should know about? I've already found about the   
>> requirement to use their SMTP server - that one's going to be a  
>> pain  for me since I use a laptop. Any other restrictions?
>
> You can get around the SMTP restrictions by purchasing smtp relay  
> from a number of vendors.

I'm not sure what you mean. I do have SMTP access to 3 separate  
servers, but all attempts by my local mail client to contact them  
time out. I thought I had read that port 25 outbound was blocked for  
any server other than smtp.rcn.com.

If there is something I'm missing, I want to know. :-)

Drew