Originally Posted By: jimhogan

I agree that it is a good thing overall, but if Comcast mass-mailed a letter that said:

"We’ve taken this action because we may have detected virus-like activity from your modem or received reports from other email providers that mail from your modem generated complaints from their users.

and that really wasn't the case at all (that it is just a mass mailing) then I think that is really awful. Deceitful. They should have just yelled "Achtung! No more unauth'd SMTP! Switch ports! Now!"

I say awful because that wording could reasonably send lots of people into a panic. I hope this wasn't the case...that it was actually based on specifics. Comcast sucks.


That's just it. The message is so wonderfully ambiguous. I would like to find out if any of my machines have been broken before resorting to 'slash and burn' fixes.

edit: To Add, None of my machines should be originating email traffic. (I use gmail pretty much exclusively) So having port 25 blocked isn't much harm.

Still I want to know. So it's off to google to find out how to detect SMTP traffic in my local net.





Edited by gbeer (24/01/2009 01:46)
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