When I set up the Evolution mail agent, I could find no way to change the outbound port from 25 to 587. I have to do this due to port 25 being blocked by the cable company. Thunderbird is no problem. Altho I don't particularly use Evolution as a mail agent, there are times when I might use it, but its worthless without being able to send mail out to my server. Did I miss something in the options or setup or is there no provisions for changing the smtp port to another port? -- Snowman
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 14:58 -0400, Sam Drinkard wrote:> When I set up the Evolution mail agent, I could find no way to change > the outbound port from 25 to 587. I have to do this due to port 25 > being blocked by the cable company. Thunderbird is no problem. Altho I > don't particularly use Evolution as a mail agent, there are times when I > might use it, but its worthless without being able to send mail out to > my server. Did I miss something in the options or setup or is there no > provisions for changing the smtp port to another port?Did you try host:port? -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net> http://centos.ivazquez.net/ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 38028b72 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050921/1ba93718/attachment.sig>
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 14:58 -0400, Sam Drinkard wrote:> When I set up the Evolution mail agent, I could find no way to change > the outbound port from 25 to 587. I have to do this due to port 25 > being blocked by the cable company. Thunderbird is no problem. Altho I > don't particularly use Evolution as a mail agent, there are times when I > might use it, but its worthless without being able to send mail out to > my server. Did I miss something in the options or setup or is there no > provisions for changing the smtp port to another port? >Did you try smtp-server:587 ? I got shafted by cablevision a while back, but gmail saves the day for me :-) Regards, Ted
Hmmm..... yes, I tried host:port, but it refuses to accept that for some reason. I'll give it another try and see what happens again. Perhaps I gave one space too many in the name:port. Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:>On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 14:58 -0400, Sam Drinkard wrote: > > >>When I set up the Evolution mail agent, I could find no way to change >>the outbound port from 25 to 587. I have to do this due to port 25 >>being blocked by the cable company. Thunderbird is no problem. Altho I >>don't particularly use Evolution as a mail agent, there are times when I >>might use it, but its worthless without being able to send mail out to >>my server. Did I miss something in the options or setup or is there no >>provisions for changing the smtp port to another port? >> >> > >Did you try host:port? > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >-- Snowman
Yep.. tried host:port, and it tells me its an unknown service or name. Oddly, the inbound works, so I know it's resolving the hostname/IP. In fact, the server is in resolv.conf and in the /etc/hosts file. named on this machine is just a caching server, but seems to resolve everything else. Don't think it's a port issue either, altho I may give that a shot on the router. Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:>On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 14:58 -0400, Sam Drinkard wrote: > > >>When I set up the Evolution mail agent, I could find no way to change >>the outbound port from 25 to 587. I have to do this due to port 25 >>being blocked by the cable company. Thunderbird is no problem. Altho I >>don't particularly use Evolution as a mail agent, there are times when I >>might use it, but its worthless without being able to send mail out to >>my server. Did I miss something in the options or setup or is there no >>provisions for changing the smtp port to another port? >> >> > >Did you try host:port? > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >-- Snowman
Quoting Sam Drinkard <sam at wa4phy.net>:> When I set up the Evolution mail agent, I could find no way to change > the outbound port from 25 to 587. I have to do this due to port 25 > being blocked by the cable company. Thunderbird is no problem. Altho I > don't particularly use Evolution as a mail agent, there are times when I > might use it, but its worthless without being able to send mail out to > my server. Did I miss something in the options or setup or is there no > provisions for changing the smtp port to another port?It would not be my first choice, but on your firewall you could use DNAT to throw the smtp destination port on your mail server to port 587 on your mail server. Barry