This question comes up a lot and it usually comes from people that travel occasionally with their laptops. If you have a Comcast cable account and you want to send mail while you're on the road, you could always do it from the webmail page on comcast.net. However, let's say you use Mail or Entourage and you want to continue sending mail via your regular email app. Well now there is a way to do it. Comcast has loosened up a bit and now allows you to send mail via their sever without being physically connected to their lines (at home).

I found out how to configure both Mail and Entourage here. Scroll down when you get to the page.

This also helps if you have an email account on another provider, but you use Comcast for sending (such as you@macgroup.org).

There are also lot's of other helpful configuration tips on that page as well. Such as configuring sending on port 587 instead of port 25.

These tips will also allow you to send mail while you're at our meetings since SBC (ATT, whatever they are these days), blocks outgoing traffic on port 25 for non SBC traffic.

.Mac members can already do this!

Terry, I'm lost on this tip.

First, what "accounts" window did you take a screen shot of? What did you do to pull-up the accounts window? [ It's not accounts in System Preferences. It's not accounts in Entourage v.X. ]

My Entourage v.X window looks very different. SSL is not an option.

This is in Apple Mail.

It would look like this in Entourage

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Originally posted by Chuck M:
Terry, I'm lost on this tip.

First, what "accounts" window did you take a screen shot of? What did you do to pull-up the accounts window? [ It's not accounts in System Preferences. It's not accounts in Entourage v.X. ]

My Entourage v.X window looks very different. SSL is not an option.

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Originally posted by Terry White:
These tips will also allow you to send mail while you're at our meetings since SBC (ATT, whatever they are these days), blocks outgoing traffic on port 25 for non SBC traffic.

Michigan Bell became part of Ameritech which became part of SBC (Southwestern Bell) who proceeded to also buy AT&T. Of the original seven RBOCs (regional Bell operating companies), SBC now owns Ameritech, Southwestern Bell and Pacific Telesis as well as Southern New England Telephone which was part of the original Bell system but only partially owned by them so they were considered an independent as was Cincinnati Bell. Of the remaining RBOCs, (NYNEX, Bell Atlantic, BellSouth and U.S. West) NYNEX and Bell Atlantic are Verizon as well as the GTE properties which was the largest independent telco, U.S. West was bought by Qwest and BellSouth is still on its own although SBC is trying to acquire them. Sooner or later, the original Bell system will be back together and will be bigger than ever.