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Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.1rc3 - patch to support sending to port 587
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Jeffrey C Honig |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.1rc3 - patch to support sending to port 587 |
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Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:38:38 -0400 |
Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> wrote:
> >Here's a short patch that first tries to submit to the "submission" port
> >(587),
> >and only tries port 25 if that fails. This is probably going to be needed by
> >nmh users that use a remote SMTP/POP host, as more and more ISPs
> >block or hijack port 25.
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> A lot of people have asked for this, and this seems reasonable to me. I'm
> not sure if there is a reason to expose this as a knob to the end-user.
I would argue that there is. If port 587 is silently blocked it would
add a delay to sending mail.
I think a more general solution would be to allow the user to configure
a list of ports ("tcp/smtp", "tcp/submittion") to try. It would prevent
this from becoming a problem again in the future.
Thanks.
Jeff
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