On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 rogerk(_at_)queernet(_dot_)org wrote:
My daytime service provider blocks all ports except 80 and 443. And your next
comment is pretty unrealistic.
Shoot, you can do SMTP AUTH over port 80 if required.
Yeah, that'll happen.
Why not? Have users set SMTP port to 80 (or 443). What is the big deal? Is
it harder to type than 25 (or 587)?
With sendmail, you can listen to as many ports as desired, on any specified
IPs or ANY using a DAEMON_OPTIONS config line for each port.
I presume that any decent MTA would have something similar. If your
web server is on the same machine as your SMTP server, have the SMTP
server listen to port 80 on a different IP address.
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