Thanks for the info.

Okay how and where do I set the SMTP port?

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 9:57 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Using SMTP authentication for CFMAIL


to into the cf admin and click Mail Settings.  In the mail server space, enter 

user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

where 

"user" is the account username.  my email address is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] so my username would be "websitemaker"

"password" is the account password in clear text

"mail.mysite.com" is the name of the mail server you want to log into.
 Depending on your mail server this can be just an IP address, or it
may need to be the domain name that the mail server's IP answers to
(or one of them... exactly what depends on how you have set up dns).

To add another ingredient into the pot: there's no law that says you
have to use port 25, which is the standard smtp port but is also the
one the spammers are trolling.  You could adhere to standards (or
rather, emerging ones) and use port 587, which appears destined to be
reserved for auth'd smtp traffic and is that already for many mail
admins.

Or you could just pick a number.  Only you, your mail server and CF
will know... Set the port in CF and the mail server and they will
communicate over that rather than port 25.

-- 
--mattRobertson--
Janitor, MSB Web Systems
mysecretbase.com



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