Le 23 avril 2021 11:11:56 GMT+04:00, Sean Kamath <[email protected]> a 
écrit :
>> 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.”

But relaying to a controlled host, which is nothing like the original issue.

>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.
>
>I’m fine with “you can’t relay on any port other than 25”, but then how do I 
>get the mails the system generates to my mailserver running on the VPS?  
>Frankly, I think it’s kinda an odd restriction that you MUST use port 25 to 
>relay mail between hosts if you own both hosts.

Yes that would be odd, but this restriction does not exists thanksfully.

>If I want to use port 2525, I should be able to the one MTA to relay to the 
>other MTA on this IP:port combination.  I get that OpenSMTPD doesn’t have this 
>ability, but I don’t see what this breaks if it’s allowed.

OpenSMTPD does have this ability, as Demi Marie Obenour pointed out. ;)

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