Scott Harney wrote:
Petri Laihonen wrote:
Why use cox mail at all?
Only couple months after signing up with cox I realized that the mail
service (any direction) was not trustworthy. Especially I did not
want to lose any important business mail, so I decided to start using
my own mail server entirely. I've had to change my mailing
preferences only once when cox started blocking port 25. Now I just
tunnel it through SSH directly to my server. (additional advantage
with tunneling outgoing mail with SSH is that I don't have to worry
about mail sniffing in the public places either....until SSH2 becomes
vulnerable)
Cox also does not filter port 587 (submission). So if you have a
server running SMTP-AUTH+TLS on port 587 you can just send directly to
it. Port 25 is really for mail server to mail server communications
and port 587 for authenticated client-> mail server communications.
Here's the RFC: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2476.txt which describes
the difference between SMTP and submission mail protocols.
If you use gmail, you can just use gmail as your submission server and
bypass Cox entirely. And you don't need your own server. Just tell
you mail program (kmail, thunderbird) to use "smtp.gmail.com" as the
outgoing mail server. Port 587 as the port. And enable SSL encryption.
Exellent! Thank you!
I knew there was some additional ports to do this stuff but I never
really had time to investigate and set it up that way. Additionally I've
had plans of setting up authentication for outgoing mail via my mail
server, but never got to that one either......yet....
Gmail option is interesting.... I may need to check that one out as
well.... Especially if it allows to use some other "sender" address
than @gmail.com. I was investigating at some point last year perhaps
having managed mail service system, but did not find any good options
for it. Gmail does not support IMAP and alone my mailbox size is about
4.5Gb. (M$ outslurp would die and loose all of it with less than quarter
of that....)
Petri
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