Re: [vps-mail] SMTP port 25

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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[ Top-posting corrected to restore logical order ]

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:25:49 -0400, "Jim Smith" <maillists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
quoted Steve Yates:

> > 	VPS2's have port 587 enabled by default.  5190 is officially
> > the AOL AIM port, which I think Verio adopted at some point 
> > for e-mail.
>
> So does this mean that if someone with SBC is having difficulty with port
> 25, I can just have them switch to port 587 instead of 5190?

Yes.

> Do I need to do anything on the server to identify it as an SMTP port?

If it's set up by sendmail then it already *knows* it's an SMTP port. You
just talk SMTP to it via port 587 instead of 25, not forgetting to
authenticate, of course.

- -- 
G. Stewart - gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx

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