[CentOS] sendmail sending out on port 587
Gregory P. Ennis
PoMec at PoMec.Net
Sun Mar 21 23:45:30 UTC 2010
On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 10:25 +1100, Kahlil Hodgson wrote:
> On 22/03/10 10:01, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> > I had been doing what you suggested above. This resulted in being able
> > to read all e-mail, but I could not send any e-mail in that port 25 was
> > being blocked by the hotel.
>
> I use thunderbird and have configured it to use multiple outgoing SMTP
> servers for various circumstances. There is an option in the outgoing
> SMTP server settings to specify the port that it uses.
>
> Another option which is simpler than sendmail (and even postfix) is to
> use a simple SMTP relay like ssmtp (get off centos repos). This has a
> very simple configuration file and even an example of what you want to
> do. This way you dont have to change your favourite email client :-)
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Kal
> _______________________________________________
Kai,
You can read my mind about evolution, I am about ready to change :)
I'll take a look at ssmtp to see if I can get it to work with evolution.
Thanks for the suggestion!!!!
Greg
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