On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday 15 Mar 2012 14:51:10 Michael Mol wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Grant Edwards >> >> <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On 2012-03-14, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Perhaps your mail address was blacklisted? Many ISPs IP address >> >> blocks are blacklisted these days. >> > >> > I know that was sometimes the case from the rejection message sent by >> > the destination SMTP server. Even though I had a static IP address >> > and an valid MX entry for the sending machine's hostname, some sites >> > wouldn't accept mail because my static IP addres was in a block used >> > for DSL customers (of which I was one). >> >> Yeah, I can't even send email to my gmail account from my Comcast >> public IPv4 address. > > Have you tried using port 587? Comcast should accept relaying on that port > IIRC with your customer username/passwd.
Researched that, but I ultimately didn't go that route because I couldn't find any good documentation on the appropriate settings. > > Or are you saying that Google will not accept incoming mail from Comcast > addresses/IP blocks? Not saying that; to my knowledge, Gmail accepts relay through Comcast's relay points, but I haven't tested that. I've only tested direct connections. -- :wq
