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<p>Thanks for fighting the big assh*les!</p>
<p>Brian<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/25/19 9:01 AM, Alucard wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:7b136d9e-aa6e-f419-ea83-9136a7c79a0b@swcp.com">I
recently had to stop paying Comcast because they wouldn't let me
out of a 3 year agreement for over 6 years. The contract I was
under had a clause that said if I moved before the 3 year
agreement was complete I had to renew the contract from day 1.
Since I stopped paying them they are asking me to pay over $3,000.
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But to be honest I'm glad I stopped paying them. That contract was
fucked up.
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Jared
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(disclaimer, I work at an ISP/CLEC now)
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On 3/24/19 8:57 PM, Tom Ashcraft wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Dear NMGLUGers et al,
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Some of you may remember my consternation and annoyance over
that situation I had where I could no longer receive email with
any Linux desktop client, most notably Thunderbird, from Comcast
imap servers; where all of the known Comcast imap servers failed
for me; where I eventually discovered a workaround by using the
'canonical' server, imap.ge.xfinity.com, a server that has never
provided a valid security certificate.
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Where only the Xfinity webmail page worked properly.
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At the time, all of this generated a considerable amount of
interest. Some of you were exceedingly generous with your
suggestions, time and effort helping me to work through it all.
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<br>
I'm still working to incorporate all the new understandings I
gained as a result.
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Well guess what. I think I just discovered the proximate cause
of the problem: our rented Comcast router for which we had been
paying for the privilege of being abused with a for truly
embarrassing period of time.
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<br>
Chalk it up to procrastination and matrimonial politics (aka my
own stupidity.)
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Having had the wonderful success of finally figuring out how to
set up Cloudflare DNS on Kubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, and Lubuntu
machines (thank you NMGLUG, especially Anthony B), I decided I
wanted to act on the notion that I should probably try to set up
a Pi Hole ad-blocking firewall. But I knew that I'd first have
obtain a third party router in order to obtain a configurable
interface.
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<br>
So about a month ago I finally purchased and set up our own
Netgear unit and returned the Comcast rental (even though the
Netgear unit is a relatively inexpensive model, it will still
take about fifteen months to recover the cost via savings from
ending the Comcast rip-off; thus the decision was not completely
trivial.)
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Other than shopping and reading quite a few questionable product
reviews, the whole process was entirely simple and painless.
That alone should have set me to thinking.
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This afternoon while updating a computer that I don't usually
keep in Albuquerque or use online, I noticed that when I opened
Thunderbird, email downloaded instantly. Which I did not expect
because I knew Thunderbird was still configured for
imap.comcast.net.
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<br>
Hmm. What if I set my other computer back from
imap.ge.xfinity.com to imap.comcast.net? Lo and behold
imap.comcast.net now works just fine.
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<br>
I conclude that our rented Comcast modem-router with the default
crippled interface had, unknown to me and against my wishes,
been configured as a firewall against the use of desktop Linux
mail clients.
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At least that appears to be the case here in Albuquerque.
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Any new I-told-you-sos or similar tales of woe out there?
<br>
<br>
Tom in Albuquerque
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