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Now those m**********rs are Comcast are blocking outgoing calls to port 110. I get my Email through a service a 1 and 1 services in Germany, and find I cannot get through unless I sign on to my subscription anonymity service. Why in the HELL would they want to block outside mail services on port 110.
As I already said, if they want to block it, I will forced to use a subcription anonymity service to get around it.
IIRC 1&1 (unlike Web.de, their sister company) don't allow POP3-SSL on port 995. Is using IMAP an option for you?
Juergen Nieveler
I had that same problem with Earthlink (I use 1and1 also). I called them (Earthlink) and got them to unblock it for me. Squeaky wheel and all that.
Any clue why they would block 110?
Maybe it's a means to force people to use the El servers and to keep people from pulling infected email from other servers?
Maybe the were trying to block external access to their POP servers and screwed up and blocked in/out access at the same time?
Spambots
Spambots and cluelessnes, then... ;-)
Juergen Nieveler
Why would spambots care about POP3 servers?
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59cobalt
Spambots don't. Clueless ISPs do - after all, Spambots are Email-related, POP3 is Email-related, so blocking POP3 will block the spambots.
Juergen Nieveler
You owe my table a new edge.
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59cobalt
right - gmail is also mail related - so they should also block port 80 and while they're at it: blocking dns 53 would _definitely_ stop all this spam nonsense. why didn't they think of that earlier ???
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