From: W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 20:19:43 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Importing NanoBlogger post "Comcast rediculousness"
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+[[!meta  title="Comcast rediculousness"]]
+[[!meta  date="2008-09-02 16:19:43"]]
+I recently paid a phone bill online for Comcast, and in order to do so
+I needed to set up a comcast email account.  While browsing through
+their documentation trying to locate an imap server, I ran across [this
+priceless gem](http://www.comcast.com/customers/faq/FaqDetails.ashx?Id=4394):
+
+    Error #1 - Port 25. Secure (SSL); no Socket Error: 10053.  Error Number 0x800CC0F.
+
+    This error indicates that your port 25 has been blocked.  Comcast has
+    determined that your computer has been infected with a virus and has
+    been used to send out spam, liekly without your knowledge.  By closing
+    this port, we've taken steps to protect your computer from being used
+    to send spam.
+
+    How can I send email again?
+
+    If you would like to send emai lthrough Outlook Express, you can click
+    here to access a simple to use, one-click fix, which will upgrade
+    Outlook Express to send email through alternate port 587.
+
+Your computer has a virus spewing junk to port 25?  No problem, simply
+move your activities somewhere else :p.  You would have though maybe
+links to anti-virus software, since I suppose linking
+[here](https://help.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu/installation-guide/i386/index.html)
+is probably to complicated for Comcast to handle ;).
+
+Sadly Comcast doesn't support IMAPS:
+
+    William_(Tue Sep 02 2008 11:03:01 GMT-0400 (EDT))>
+    I was wondering if there is an IMAPS server
+
+    Romeo.25655(Tue Sep 02 2008 11:03:39 GMT-0400 (EDT))>
+    William, Comcast supports POP server only.
+
+    William_(Tue Sep 02 2008 11:03:54 GMT-0400 (EDT))>
+    are there IMAP plans for the future?
+
+    Romeo.25655(Tue Sep 02 2008 11:04:33 GMT-0400 (EDT))>
+    I am not certain about that, William.
+
+    William_(Tue Sep 02 2008 11:04:52 GMT-0400 (EDT))>
+    Is there someone else I should ask?
+
+    Romeo.25655(Tue Sep 02 2008 11:06:25 GMT-0400 (EDT))>
+    At this time, the only server that we sure for our email is POP. There
+    is no plans to use IMAP.
+
+After some googling about, I found out how to setup mutt to not delete
+messages it downloads from a POP server, and got Comcast working
+through Mutt.  I was uncertain about the encryption, since Mutt fails
+on its first few authentication attempts, so I tcpdumped the connection with
+
+    # tcpdump -A > /tmp/dump
+
+and grepped through the output for my username and password.  No
+matches, so apparently `pops` in the server name is sufficient for
+hiding the authentication.
+
+You can see my mutt configuration at the [Drexel liki](http://www.physics.drexel.edu/liki/index.php/Mutt).
+
+[[!tag  linux]]