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Monday, March 13th, 2023 9:38 PM

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Not receiving emails from a UK web site

I have noticed that I'm not getting email confirmations or their email newsletter at my comcast.net email address from a UK classic car site.  Looking back this has been happening for over 4 months.

I asked the site owner and he says he is sending from three IP addresses and none of them are blocked by spam lists:

[Edit: PII]

He also says that he gets connection reset errors like this for all comcast.net addresses and after 5 days they turn into delivery failures:

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----< [Edited: "Personal Information"]>... Deferred: Connection reset by mx2h1.comcast.net.Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hoursWill keep trying until message is 5 days old Final-Recipient: RFC822; [Edited: "Personal Information"]Action: delayedStatus: 4.2.0Remote-MTA: DNS; mx1h1.comcast.netLast-Attempt-Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2023 09:44:54 GMTWill-Retry-Until: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 05:44:42 GMT    ----- Transcript of session follows -----451 4.4.1 reply: read error from mx1.mxge.comcast.net.451 4.4.1 reply: read error from mx2.mxge.comcast.net.451 4.4.1 reply: read error from mx2c1.comcast.net.451 4.4.1 reply: read error from mx2h1.comcast.net.451 4.4.1 reply: read error from mx2a1.comcast.net.451 4.4.1 reply: read error from mx1h1.comcast.net.451 4.4.1 reply: read error from mx1c1.comcast.net.451 4.4.1 reply: read error from mx1a1.comcast.net.< [Edited: "Personal Information"]>... Deferred: Connection reset by mx1a1.comcast.net.Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hoursWill keep trying until message is 5 days old Reporting-MTA: dns; wix.mpxam.co.ukArrival-Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 16:38:44 GMT Final-Recipient: RFC822; [Edited: "Personal Information"]Action: delayedStatus: 4.4.2Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 20:41:17 GMTWill-Retry-Until: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 16:38:44 GMT The original message was received at Sun, 5 Mar 2023 07:19:26 GMTfrom localhost [127.0.0.1]    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----< [Edited: "Personal Information"]>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----< [Edited: "Personal Information"]>... Deferred: Connection reset by mx1c1.comcast.net.Message could not be delivered for 5 daysMessage will be deleted from queue Final-Recipient: RFC822; [Edited: "Personal Information"]Action: failedStatus: 4.4.7

Why would comcast.net fail to deliver emails like that? The errors 4.2.0 and 4.4.2 indicate an issue at comcast.

4.4.7 indicates comcast is unable or more importantly unwilling to accept the emails.

Any help to correct these failures would be really useful.

 

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1.5K Messages

2 years ago

Hello and welcome to Comcast. Thank you so much for brining this to our attention. I am sorry to hear you have not been able to receive emails for the UK. You are in the right place and we are happy to assist you with this issue. 

 

Could you please send our team a direct message with your full name and full address? Our team can most definitely take a further look at this issue. To send a "Direct Message" ("Private") message:

  • Click "Sign In" if necessary
  • Click the "Direct Message” icon (upper right corner of this page)
  • Click the "New message" (pencil and paper) icon
  • Type "Xfinity Support" in the to line and select "Xfinity Support" from the drop-down list
  • Type your message in the text area near the bottom of the window
  • Press Enter to send your message

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2 years ago

I am a member of a web site www.mg-cars.org.uk. They are sending me emails at my comcast.net emeil address from the following IP addresses but I am not receiving them:

[Edit: PII]

I asked the owners of that site why and they said comcast are blocking them at port 25:

[Edit: PII]
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.

Their analysis is that it looks like a blacklist or connection throttling of some kind that's implemented at the comcast end in an application, presentation or session layer rather than at the transport or network layer.

Some sort of middleware or proxy that sits in front of TCP port 25 and denies access to the SMTP service.

Please could this issue be resolved?

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Official Employee

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881 Messages

2 years ago

@user_13ad2f We've been in contact with this sender.  We do not see any traffic on our end from them.  We have asked for a tcpdump and some traceroute information, but as far as I know, haven't yet received it from them.  We are not blocking the IPs.

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