Re: [gentoo-user] SSL CUPS and SMTP on port 587

[Grant]

> > My ISP (Cox) blocks outgoing port 25 so I can't submit mail to my
> > remote mail server.  From what I understand, port 587 is commonly used
> > to get around this.  Can I have postfix listen on port 25 and port
> > 587?  Has anyone set that up?
>
> I do it slightly differently: I leave an SSH connection from my box to
> the mail server, which maps some local port to port 25 on the mail
> server, and send all my mail to the local port.

Yeah I think I'll do that if port 587 doesn't work out.  From what I
understand, using 587 in this way is somewhat of a standard?

- Grant


> HTH,
>
> W
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