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

[kashani]

Grant wrote:
>>> 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?

In your master.cf uncomment the following lines and then restart 
Postfix. It should just work if you already have TLS setup.

smtps     inet  n       -       n       -       -       smtpd
         -o smtpd_tls_wrappermode=yes

kashani
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