Re: comcast, port 25, and postfix?

2009-05-14 Thread Robert Nichols
Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 14 May 2009 08:34:58 -0400 David wrote: Comcast stopped using port 25 for their smtp and not uses port 587. And they did say it was to do as suggested. To stop spam relays. I'm not saying its a bad idea, I'm just trying to figure out the source of the ominous messag

Re: comcast, port 25, and postfix?

2009-05-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 05:52:53 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > More and more, I suspect comcast is just making stuff up > to justify blocking port 25 (which is odd since they > don't really need any justification :-). I guess you have pretty low expectations of what someone selling you an inte

Re: comcast, port 25, and postfix?

2009-05-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 08:40:07 +0200, Johan Swensson wrote: > Port 25 is also used for receiving mail. > My guess is your ISP blocked port 25 for incoming connections due to someone > using your postfix for relaying spam. I think they would block the outbound port 25, not the inbound one.

Re: comcast, port 25, and postfix?

2009-05-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 14 May 2009 08:34:58 -0400 David wrote: > Comcast stopped using port 25 for their smtp and not uses port 587. And > they did say it was to do as suggested. To stop spam relays. I'm not saying its a bad idea, I'm just trying to figure out the source of the ominous message about them detect

Re: comcast, port 25, and postfix?

2009-05-14 Thread David
On 5/14/2009 5:52 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 14 May 2009 08:40:07 +0200 (CEST) > Johan Swensson wrote: > >> Port 25 is also used for receiving mail. >> My guess is your ISP blocked port 25 for incoming connections due to someone >> using your postfix for relaying spam. > > Nope, I don't h

Re: comcast, port 25, and postfix?

2009-05-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 14 May 2009 05:18:06 -0700 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > main.cf: > relayhost = [relayhost.example.com]:465 That's the way I set it up. > I assume you did comment out the smtp line in master.cf or otherwise > prevented outsiders from connecting to your server. I don't have port 25 open

Re: comcast, port 25, and postfix?

2009-05-14 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Tom Horsley writes: > I just got mail from comcast telling me they have blocked > port 25 on my cablemodem due to possible abuse (I don't > really care if they do this - I'm not using port 25). Local port 25 or remote port 25? I'm maintaining a friend's Fedora system remotely and have noticed t

Re: comcast, port 25, and postfix?

2009-05-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 14 May 2009 08:40:07 +0200 (CEST) Johan Swensson wrote: > Port 25 is also used for receiving mail. > My guess is your ISP blocked port 25 for incoming connections due to someone > using your postfix for relaying spam. Nope, I don't have port 25 open on my router, I'm sure there can't be

Re: comcast, port 25, and postfix?

2009-05-13 Thread Johan Swensson
0 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: comcast, port 25, and postfix? I'm running postfix rather than sendmail, and I have it setup to use a relayhost to send mail via my ISP through a stunnel SSL connection. I just got mail from comcast telling me they have blocked

comcast, port 25, and postfix?

2009-05-13 Thread Tom Horsley
I'm running postfix rather than sendmail, and I have it setup to use a relayhost to send mail via my ISP through a stunnel SSL connection. I just got mail from comcast telling me they have blocked port 25 on my cablemodem due to possible abuse (I don't really care if they do this - I'm not using p