On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 07:43:18PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> Scott says:
> [...]


> | If your ISP uses a secure server, then it would read something like
> | 
> | set smtp_url="smtps://john:[email protected]:465
> | 
> | 465 is the standard port for smtps. However, always check with your ISP, 
> | or read their setup information for sending mail. Gmail uses 
> | authentication and TSL, I believe, and for sending, you need to use port 
> | 587. The last time I looked, their help site said that you could either 
> | one, but thanks to a post in their forums by K. Frazier, I found that 
> | 587 seems to be necessary.
> 
> Actually, 465 is just distressingly common, not standard. The
> standard is 25 (plain old SMTP) using the STARTTLS common to enter
> TLS before delivering the message.

Great, thank you.  I'll fix that on the page today.


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