I have had problems sending emails from Comcast to eircom. I spent a good deal of time communicating with Comcast. They gave very complex directions about getting the OTHER person to follow a certain process. I asked how I could get this information to the OTHER person if my email did not go through. (I do have a secondary email address and used that. The person followed all of the directions and the email got through to me, but only for that one time). I called Comcast again and was told that if an ISP does not have enough filters for spam, Comcast will not accept mail from that ISP. That was the case with eircom. Regardless of the pros and cons on this issue, that seems to be the bottom line. Comcast suggested that if enough eircom subscribers complained, eircom might add more filters. Comcast said that most of the viruses that are really damaging tend to come from overseas. Recently I have begun to get email from eircom, but I don't know if that will continue. I also was not able to get an Australian ISP: optusnet. I think one solution, although not perfect, is to have an alternative email address: hotmail or yahoo or gmail come to mind. If someone sees your comcast address on a message board and tries to email you directly you would have a problem, but the alternative email address helps with those you regularly correspond with. Was it eircom you had difficulty with? Or was there also another ISP? Jan janfortado@comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: <countycork-request@rootsweb.com> To: <countycork@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 3:00 AM Subject: COUNTYCORK Digest, Vol 5, Issue 24 > > > Check out the Ireland GenWeb County Cork Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlcor/ > It is a good place to find information related to your family research. > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Problems Sending Emails to Ireland (John Keating) > 2. Problems Sending Emails to Ireland (John Keating) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:47:57 -0500 > From: John Keating <jkeating2@comcast.net> > Subject: [CO CORK] Problems Sending Emails to Ireland > To: countycork-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <EB96A617-4FB7-4018-97A3-4248EDB8BF38@comcast.net> > Content-Type: text/plain > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:50:27 -0500 > From: John Keating <jkeating2@comcast.net> > Subject: [CO CORK] Problems Sending Emails to Ireland > To: countycork-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <DBA2B8C4-5E85-425C-A48B-E0D04879B352@comcast.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > Over the past year I've experienced problems using COMCAST > to try to send Emails to Ireland and from the other end they experience > obstructions in replying through COMCAST. > Has anyone else experienced similar problems. > Please respond. > Jack keating > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the COUNTYCORK list administrator, send an email to > COUNTYCORK-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the COUNTYCORK mailing list, send an email to > COUNTYCORK@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COUNTYCORK-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of COUNTYCORK Digest, Vol 5, Issue 24 > ***************************************** >