On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 22:55 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > However, I did find an easy solution for evolution to use smtp on port > 587. I will record it here so that anyone looking for this in the > future will have the right methodology. > > All I had to do was to place the port number after the server name in > the "Sending E-Mail" tab of the "Preference -> Mail Account module in > the form of : > > mail.domain.net:587 --- For the record here is what I use in Pine for my .pinerc file. Located in /home/user_name/.pinerc... smtp-server=smtp.gmail.com:587/tls/user=your_address at gmail.com So how is there a problem with Pine? I see you got Evolution figured out. I would rather have a plain old email client like pine or evolution instead of a VPN. John