And if they're that aggressive, I bet they start blocking other email forwarding services.
Last week Comcast started blocking ALL emails forwarded through MyDomain.com. This is not some mickey-mouse off-shore SPAM enterprise. It's a major Domain registrar, web hosting and domain re-direction service based in Vancouver, Washington.
I have used them for 12 years for domain and email forwarding, as well as the registrar on all my personal domains. I have two clients who use them for email forwarding to their Comcast email addresses and basically lost all their email for a week until I switched them over to Gmail POP accounts.
MyDomain has a post on their support page apologizing for the problem, and explaining that they've tried to contact Comcast to remedy the situation with no success.
I suspect other ISPs will start doing this too. SPAM, and the response to it, is slowly killing off standard email as any kind of viable communications medium. It's time to scrap it and start with something new.
Here's the letter Comcast tech support sent me when I inquired WTF was going on:
Thank you for contacting Comcast Cable.
Unfortunately, when you use a third-party email forwarding service that forwards your email messages to your Comcast webmail accounts, these forwarded messages usually are flagged as spam.
This happens since Comcast's filters are blocking the IP addresses of the servers which are forwarding the
messages.
Comcast does not offer support for issues such as this, you may need to simply use Comcast webmail in order to avoid these issues with your email being blocked.
We value your business.
Thank you for choosing Comcast.
Sincerely,
Curtis U
Comcast Online Customer Support
