Verizon FIOS email changes

Verizon is changing their email ports: Copied from my email...

Email Program Users (Outlook®, Thunderbird, Mac Mail, etc)

* If you use a non-Verizon account such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo or AOL to send your emails through a program like Outlook®, Thunderbird or MacMail, you will need to make a simple change to your 'Server Port Number' setting in your email account - change the 'Server Port 25' setting to 'Server Port 587' setting. Visit www.verizon.net/port25 for the quick and easy instructions on how to modify this setting.

Thanks for being a valued Verizon Online customer and we encourage you to act now to ensure your email account is updated prior to June 1, 2010.

For quick solutions to common FiOS Internet questions, check out Verizon's In-Home Agent, a fast and easy 24/7 support tool, accessible at the click of your mouse. Download today at www.verizon.com/inhomeagent.


Now I'll have to find another way for my Elk M1 to email me...

gatchel said:

Verizon is changing their email ports: Copied from my email...

Email Program Users (Outlook®, Thunderbird, Mac Mail, etc)

* If you use a non-Verizon account such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo or AOL to send your emails through a program like Outlook®, Thunderbird or MacMail, you will need to make a simple change to your 'Server Port Number' setting in your email account - change the 'Server Port 25' setting to 'Server Port 587' setting. Visit www.verizon.net/port25 for the quick and easy instructions on how to modify this setting.

Thanks for being a valued Verizon Online customer and we encourage you to act now to ensure your email account is updated prior to June 1, 2010.

For quick solutions to common FiOS Internet questions, check out Verizon's In-Home Agent, a fast and easy 24/7 support tool, accessible at the click of your mouse. Download today at www.verizon.com/inhomeagent.


Now I'll have to find another way for my Elk M1 to email me...

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Why? The port is adjustable in the M1XEP settings. Their was no mention in that link of moving to SSL, but if they are you will need to use something like stunnel.

Good point. I didn't think of that and automatically assumed they would be using SSL due to the port...I'll have to look into this more and maybe do some testing.

I already changed mine in the XEP, and it works fine!

Sweet. Good to know. I assumed that SSL was involved as that seems to be the way a lot of email providers have been going. Stupid me. Honestly, I haven't even had time to do that as I am in the middle of building a garage. Now I know why builders get their cut...

Verizon's methodology of changing their email ports was much better than the Comcast method.

I utilize Gmail, Comcast, Verizon (via FIOS) and a paid for private email address. I mostly utilize Comcast and Verizon for their SMTP services more than the POP services. I am just writing a comment relating to Verizon's email services. Within two weeks after configuring (basically not much in that I had Verizon DSL services for 5 years before that) email on the Verizon email servers last year my mail boxes had thousands of spam emails.

I had previously I called them and said that I hadn't used their service but for sending SMTP messages in the first two weeks of changing over from DSL to FIOS and never would register my verizon email account with any internet services. I asked them why the spam? They could never give me a reason. These days even before recent Verizon email changes spam email has dropped signficantly; indicatory somewhat that they are getting their act together.

I am using Snaplink with an Omni Pro II and can no longer send emails.
I checked the configuration file, but cannot find a port listed anywhere.
In addition, in the snaplink GUI I added the port to the end of my smtpout server, smtpout.secureserver.net:587, but this did not work.
Is anyone else having this problem with Fios?

Thanks

It's not just FIOS, other carriers are blocking port 25 as well.

If your software can't use an alternate port, then you may want to look at a method to proxy or port forward your local port 25 to 587. I've not personally needed to do this, so I can't recommend specific solutions, but you can search for a SMTP local proxy program or some routers allow you to configure port forwarding on outbound ports (most consumer routers only do forwarding on inbound ports). Using one of these methods would allow your Snap-Link to still operate on port 25, but the outbound would actually forward to 587.

Edit: here's a SMTP proxy that should work: http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/SmtpProxy.jsp