[CentOS] Evolution

Barry Brimer barry.brimer at bigfoot.com
Wed Sep 21 20:30:41 UTC 2005


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



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