Re: [vps-mail] port 5190 is blocked now too

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:07:19 -0700, "Mark A. Sharkey"
<mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As more and more ISP's starting blocking port 25 for outgoing mail, we 
> began telling all our clients to simply use port 5190 and all was fine. 
>   Now we are finding some ISP's that are blocking that port as well.  In 
> these cases, I have told the client that they simply will have to use 
> their ISP for outgoing mail from now one.  However, I'm wondering if an 
> alternate solution might be to add yet another port number that sendmail 
> listens on.

Look in the .mc configuration file of your VPS2 (/etc/mail/$hostname.mc).
You'll see a line like this:

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=5190, Name=MSA5190')

Put a different port number in there, regenerate and install a new
sendmail.cf and restart sendmail.

> Has anyone tried this?  Have the isp's 'caught on'?  If 
> you've done this, how easy is it to implement and does subsequent 
> upgrades to sendmail impact the changes?

Haven't tried it myself but I see no reason why it shouldn't work.

Subsequent sendmail upgrades should not undo it.

- -- 
G. Stewart - gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx

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