Sorry, my apologies to Jeff for such a terse response . As you can imagine stress was a bit high last night/this AM, and a suggestion to suddenly move that many clients on the fly wasn't within reason.
We did the best with what we had, as at the time the decision was made many years back the server at that time didn't support submission port. Since then we haven't changed. Hopefully our next move will be to Exchange 2010 later this year. *crosses fingers* Thanks to all for your help. Larry hit the nail on the head with the sendmail.mc file. I forgot that's where I added it last time. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 9:00 AM To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List Subject: [BlueOnyx:06810] Re: changes to sendmail.cf from BQ? Roy Urick wrote: > Sorry, not an option. I have 500+ systems using port 26 and no fast > way to setup the submission port on all clients. Unfortunately I > misplaced my magic wand, so I cant reset all of my mail clients by > hand in the next 5 1/5 hours before they start waking up and arriving at work in the AM. > > Your idea is grand on paper, but epic fail in reality. NEXT! ;) Hmmmmm.... "epic fail" perhaps, but not on Jeff's suggestion to use standard submission port. We recently moved 5200+ users from BQ to BX. We've always used standard submission port (587), but used POP-before-SMTP instead of authenticated SMTP on 587. That changed with the move to BX. Rather than risk freaking out at the last minute we made sure that we communicated the change with customers, notifying every user about the date and time of the cutover. Of course, not every user will read and understand, so we did take a few support tickets (less than 50!) to walk some users through their changes. I'm not sure who would have told you to go with SMTP on 26, but I would use this opportunity to begin your move toward standardization. That way you won't be stuck with some weird set of procedures and leave your customers out hanging in the wind. SMTP belongs on 25, Submission belongs on 587. The sooner you get your machines and your users with that program the better off you'll be. Then your "next" move (or the next time the box YUM updates, or...) you won't have another "epic fail" on your hands. -- Chris Gebhardt VIRTBIZ Internet Services Access, Web Hosting, Colocation, Dedicated www.virtbiz.com | toll-free (866) 4 VIRTBIZ _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list [email protected] http://www.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list [email protected] http://www.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx
