A Caveat though ..

 

You will not be able to send mail off your own SMTP server  on port 25 if
you are on the 'dongle network'- for now. It's a DHCP service and extremely
vulnerable to abuse by spammers. You will only be able to relay off Orange's
SMTP server which Mike has talked about or though any one of the many
authenticated relays out there. 

 

Richard

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Mike Barnard
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 3:56 PM
To: Linux Users Group Uganda
Subject: Re: [LUG] Re: Ubuntu & Orange

 

 

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Jerry <[email protected]> wrote:

For the majority this will not be a simple write and send mail as is
required, most employees in my company who even don't know what a port is or
how to change their settings will have a problem. Is it also possible to
open port 110 for incoming mail and 25 for outgoing mail which i assume is
mostly default for the majority of the dongo users.

 

As pointed out, we do not block any ports. You are are free to use whatever
ports you want to use while using your dongle. The email setup you have
dictates the nature of connectivity you are to setup. The default port 25
connections and port 110 are open for you to use, again, they are not
blocked. 

 

Most email hosting companies will provide port 25 for you if you are an
Internet user on their network. Orange is going to and will provide his smtp
service, however, there is a lot of that platform that is still under
development. As soon as its done, it will be availed to all Orange Internet
users.

 

Others will provide port 25 for you if and only if you authenticate to send
email. Google is such one email service provider that does not care what IP
address you connect from as long as you authenticate.

 

Unfortunately, I do not know of any email service provider in Uganda that
offers smtpauth (I stand to be corrected) on their service platform while
not connecting from their network. (Again I stand to be corrected.)




PS: Kind Request: Could you please trim the digests you receive to reflect
the relevant quote you are commenting on or asking a question on?
http://www.gweep.ca/~edmonds/usenet/ml-etiquette.html#SECTION000900000000000
00000

 


-- 
Mike

Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in
a million chances happen 99% of the time.
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