[PLUG] attbi -> comcast switch..

Anthony Schlemmer aschlemm at comcast.net
Mon Jun 30 23:22:02 UTC 2003


I was using port 995 for POP ever since the change from @Home to ATTBI 
occurred back in 2001. I use KMail and when I setup the account I had 
it check what sort of security was supported and used to most secure 
method available to me.

Tony

On Monday 30 June 2003 09:45 am, Mark Wills wrote:
> I have opened the transition pages - with difficulty after many
> refreshes! I suspect the servers are slammed.
> Anthony has the servers right. In addition add netnews.comcast.net
> for News Server
> They also support ssl connection to the POP server (port 995)
> All of my mail was waiting at the new servers. I couldn't get any
> from the old.
> The forwarding seems to work. mail sent to attbi.com or comcast.net
> comes though to the new mail boxes.
> I avoided having to change email addresses by getting my own domain
> name from domainforte.com with email forwarding for $12.95/yr.
>
> Mark
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org
> > [mailto:plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org]On Behalf Of Anthony
> > Schlemmer Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 7:38 AM
> > To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] attbi -> comcast switch..
> >
> >
> > I'm not in the Portland area but I did have to transition from
> > attbi.com to comcast.net. The mail server names for POP and SMTP
> > have been changed and everyone gets the "comcast.net" domain on
> > their userids. My user ID stayed the same and everything appears to
> > be working normally for email. It's a pain though since I subscribe
> > to a number mailing lists. At least Comcast is nice enough to keep
> > forwarding email to our new addresses even if people use our old
> > attbi.com domain.
> >
> > I'm assuming everyone will use the following email servers no
> > matter where they are located geographically:
> >
> > incoming (POP) server: mail.comcast.net
> > outgoing (SMTP) server: smtp.comcast.net
> >
> > Tony
> >
> > On Monday 30 June 2003 07:04 am, Brent Rieck wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >   Has anybody seen the manual switch instructions yet?
> > > connect.comcast.net bounces me to a non-existent server
> > > (online.comcast.net).
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > Brent
> > >
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> > --
> > Anthony Schlemmer
> > aschlemm at comcast.net
> >
> >
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