Comcast and port 25 blocking

[John Abreau]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Benj. Mako Hill wrote:

> After putting up with this silliness for too long, I have resorted to
> moving mail in and out of my workstations over SSH tunnels which are
> very rarely blocked and more secure to boot.

I've been doing the same for years. A nice benefit is I don't have to 
allow relaying for everyone in the same dynamic ip pool as I'm stuck in at 
home. Mail received on the mailserver through ssh is seen as coming from 
localhost, so I can disable all client relaying on the mail server.