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Need port 25 unblocked
Hi I work from home as a network engineer and require this for my job. I understand the repercussions of having this open and maintain my own firewalls and security software. Please unblock the port as soon as you are able to @XfinityCSAEmail
Thank you for your time.
flatlander3
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1 year ago
For the immediate concern for work, neither verizon or t-mobile blocks outbound 25, at least in my market area. A cheap wallyworld MiFi orbic, or jetpack with a prepaid data sim plan ought to be plenty. Outbound may even work on your phone hotspot if you try it. They may block inbound depending on your market if that is what you want though, and likely will on your phone's hotspot. Never tried to run inbound on either phone or MiFi and your IP changes all the time, but outbound telnet on 25 works.
Cheaper (~$10/year) is a port redirect service if you want to run a local SMTP or Backup server. Run on just about whatever port you want then, and mail will queue there when your IP address does change. Run the submits on port 587.
Business accounts aren't blocked. If you are successful in an unblock on a residential account, you'll be doing this again when your IP address changes, so that's an issue to be aware of.
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