Comments on: Can’t Send Mail Using Comcast?

By: Angela

Angela — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:48:17 +0000

I am located far west of the western suburbs of Chicago and began having the same problem – just started last night.

I tried all of the recommended ports until I saw your post and YEA ! It worked.

So any Chicago / Suburban users might want to try the settings you gave – SSL on port 465.

Thanks so much.

I feel sorry for all those users who don’t understand the whole port thing and will be wasting gobs of time trying to get it corrected.

Shameful of Comcast to put people through this.

By: chris

chris — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:38:52 +0000

i, too, was suddenly blocked for outgoing mail on 2/9/20 at 3:29am–am in detroit area. comcast tech assured me i was NOT blocked, but…changed to port 587 out & 995 in. fine. still interested in why this happened, though, and found comments/blogs going back to ‘07. if interested, check out this link: http://www.comcast.net/terms/network/

don’t know why it won’t highlight, but, anyway…very enlightening.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:42:48 +0000

Scott,
I bypassed going through Comcast as it might not get me anywhere. I got an e-mail account through my domain registrar and bought a SMTP relay to “workaround” the blocked port issue.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:54:23 +0000

I believe this is unrelated to the port 25 change, but yes, I’ve seen this before – not a bad idea to get your voice heard – thanks for leaving the link for others…

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:41:23 +0000

I have Comcast and I assure you that all emails going to anywhere other than verizon.net go through. I have just file a complaint against Verizon and you should too at :
https://esupport.fcc.gov/sform2000/formB!input.action?form_page=2000B

I can receive emails from Verizon, I can send emails to Verizon only through SmartZone.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:02:40 +0000

Any resolution yet for you, @miguel? Have you phoned Comcast?

By: RH

RH — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:19:39 +0000

I’m now getting this in the South Bay Area/Silicon Valley. My port was already set to 587. In the settings options in Outlook 2010 Beta, when I click the Test Settings button it ok’s both out going and incoming mail, but will not send out going mail. The error message is the server timed out… Just wait or is this a port number issue? Thanks.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:49:21 +0000

correction “am experiencing the same issues”

By: Miguel

Miguel — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:48:16 +0000

All,

I live in Indianapolis and am experienced the same issues with Comcast. I had everything running through my Exchange Server using port 25 and smtp.comcast.net as my relay. Every e-mail passed through until today when suddenly all outbound e-mails got stuck in my queue. I have tried the various ports listed above in the suggestions but they have been unsuccessful. Curses Comcast!

By: Adalberto Quintana

Adalberto Quintana — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:17:48 +0000

Well, outgoing SMTP server should be set to port 1025 and it’s work fine with comcast e-mail, it’s explain very clearly here in this blog.

Thanks for this valuable notification.