On 4/23/21 3:11 AM, Sean Kamath wrote:
>> On Apr 22, 2021, at 13:01, ED Fochler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> No.
>>
>> You're only trying to send mail.  Your ISP is only trying to stop you from 
>> sending mail.
>>
>> Mail delivery is meant to be very well defined and easy to identify.  If 
>> your ISP is blocking connections to port 25 then they are blocking all 
mail, spam and otherwise.  The solution is to set up a mail server on a network 
that allows mail.  This can be a $5/mo cloud server.  You can then 
'submit' mail to your mail server using other ports, but the mail server will 
talk to other mail servers on standard ports, primarily port 25.
> 
> So, I actually have this same problem.
> 
> I do have a VPS, which is my mail server (and have no problems sending mail, 
> such as this one, using my MUA to connect to the VPS-based MTA).  I 
have about 8 little PCEngines Alix and APU devices, all sitting at home, with 
an ISP that blocks port 25 (and lord do I wish I had the option for another 
ISP).  They all run OpenBSD/OpenSMTP.
> 
> The problem I’ve run into is I’m not sure how to use the submission port to 
> “submit” mail to my mail server.  Since I have the cron emails being sent, 
> how do I get those routed to the VPS?  How do I get basically all the emails 
> for a couple of users forwarded to the VPS without, you know, relaying mail?
> 
> Do I set up an account on the VPS, and tell SMTPD to relay all mail to my 
> domain to that submission port?  That sounds like relaying, and, as stated 
> elsewhere in this thread, "Emails must be relayed on port 25.”
> 
> Back in the before-times, I used sendmail’s concept of a smarthost, and just 
> pointed it at that host, and could also tell it what port to connect on.

OpenSMTPD has full smarthost support.  Use smtps://your.host:port or
smtp+tls://your.host:port  OpenSMTPD also supports authenticating this
connection, which your mail server should be requiring.

Demi

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