Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)cmf(_dot_)nrl(_dot_)navy(_dot_)mil> 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.
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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