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Re: port blocking fun



 Cole Tuininga wrote: 
> On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 23:15 -0500, Matthew Gillen wrote: 
>> But how do you get people who send you mail to try ports other than 25?  It 
>> was my understanding that most mail servers won't try anything else by default. 
> 
> DynDNS (the company I work for) has a service to do exactly that: 
> 
> http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/relay.html
> 

Right. When I wasn't sure that it would ever be fixed, I poked around and 
found another company that would do that as well (for half the price of 
DynDNS's service: http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/s0306/prod/msf.html), but given 
how difficult it was to get Comcast to do something technical, I can only 
imagine what would've happened when I sent the invoice for that service to 
them and told them they owed me.  (my feeling is, I wouldn't need that 
additional pay service if they weren't disrupting my service to begin with, so 
they should pay for it). 

I'm sure they would've laughed at me, and I didn't really want to go to small 
claims court over it. 

Matt 

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