Foot_Tapper

Morning folks... been looking at this thread , just as dumbfounded as some others i expect. (The mail gurus are having a good laugh)

I have found this interesting statement, which may have some credence for some peoples problems.
"Sending Problems ISPs block your sending capability (called port 25 blocking)
ISPs place restrictions on sending mail to a third party such as comicmail.com because of Internet SPAM concerns. They do not want SPAM email originating from their network(s) and they feel that sending to a third party introduces SPAM concerns.
All free ISPs block your capability to send mail (the technical term for this restriction is called "port 25 blocking", port 25 is blocked to external parties from your ISP). And most fee-based ISPs, such as AOL, Mindspring, Earthlink, Prodigy, CompuServe, block your capbility to send mail as well (as well as many others -too many to mention).
(detection and solutions are below)
How do you know if your ISP is blocking your capability to send (port 25 blocking)? You will get a connection failure or connection timeout when trying to send mail (every time).
Try running the commands below on your PC/MAC/UNIX while connected to your ISP. The first two commands should fail and the third should connect if your ISP blocks port 25 for sending mail: (substitute in your domain with YOURDOMAIN)
To run these commands on Windows, click on the Windows Start button, choose the Run option and type in the command and click the OK button to execute (run each command separately). On UNIX, simply run the command if telnet is in your PATH, on MAC, you need to configure a Telnet profile for each command and run the profile.

telnet mail.<<YOURDOMAIN>> 25 (this should fail - that is why you are here)
telnet mail.<<YOURDOMAIN>> 80 (this should connect as long as there are no connectivity problems)

(the last command uses what is called port 80 (the web) for sending your mail, all ISPs allow you to access the web and very few use an application proxy which could cause this process to fail)

Solution to ISP restriction on sending mail (port 25 blocking):
If you use an Outlook/Outlook Express, Netscape or newer version of Eudora as a mail client, you change implement a work-around to the sending restriction (follow the instructions below):
In Outlook/Outlook Express, change your Outgoing SMTP server to: mail.comicmail.com and change the port number for SMTP to port 80 rather than port 25 (these changes are done on the Servers and Advanced screens in the Account properties).

In Netscape, change your Outgoing SMTP server to: mail.comicmail.com:80

If you use Eudora, see Document ID: 1501HQ at the Eudora Support site to learn how to change the SMTP port for sending mail. Search for the document number under there support section.

If you use any other mail client, check with that program's documentation to see how to change the port (SMTP port) used for sending mail. You will need to change the port number and the server name (both) in order to send mail when the ISP has a block in place"
If antone tries this let us know if it works.

Foot_Tapper

here's the link
http://www.comicmail.com/support.htm...=sending_probs