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?
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?
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?
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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?
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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.
You might want to try telnetting to the server you are trying to use, just to make sure you have the correct server & port and that your internet connection is functioning properly.
"telnet servername port", if it works you should get a welcome message from the mailserver. If it can connect, then evolutio isn't the problem.
--Bill
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
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
I can confirm that mailserver:portnumber will work, this is what I use.
--Bill
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Quoting Sam Drinkard sam@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
Thanks for the replies folks.. for some reason, it decided to work ??? perhaps due to a stop and then restarting it, but it now accepts the host:port with no problem.
Barry Brimer wrote:
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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.
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On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 16:37 -0400, Sam Drinkard wrote:
Thanks for the replies folks.. for some reason, it decided to work ??? perhaps due to a stop and then restarting it, but it now accepts the host:port with no problem.
Barry Brimer wrote:
Evo is finicky like that, for many changes it needs to be restarted.
Regards, Ted
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