[email protected] wrote:
I keep meaning to ask this but forget when I get home.
I have had a problem with many/most non-home router
connections with the outgoing mail failing.
I get a message saying that the connection to the
smtp server failed.
What setting might be interfering with this, please?
As covered in many posts, this is an ISP decision, not a SM issue.
You asked:
At 09/22/2010 02:50 PM
> Has something changed so that everyone needs to do this in SM now?
You are using (trying to use) an ISP who doesn't allow mail.
At 09/22/2010 07:27 PM
> This eliminates my ISP as the source of the problem.
It does, it also eliminates SM as the source of the problem.
At 09/23/2010 05:56 PM
> My Web host and one of my three E-mail providers agrees with the
> info in an article someone private-mailed me that Port 25 is being
> blocked.
> He suggested trying Port 26, so I have made that change and will test
> it at a non-home Wifi connection tomorrow. It appears to work from
> here OK.
This is another non-standard workaround, which will not work in all places. It
wouldn't work at all if the ISP knew how to configure firewalls.
At 09/24/2010 10:22 AM
> Well, two of the three E-mail providers allow Port 26, my ISP does not.
> If Port 26 works at non-home Wifi sites then I will ask my ISP to
> enable Port 26 so I can leave all of them set that way all the time.
Your correct solution would probably be to use the message submission port, port
587, which should not be blocked. Note, "should not," incompetence is rampant,
ISP block things at random, trying to stem the tide of spam. Message submission
requires authentication and should not be blocked, but you need to check the
"always offer authentication" option and provide your own credentials to make it
work.
I'm assuming SM supports using this, I can't quickly check. As for your ISP
providing this, I hope so, you can test by doing
telnet {your outgoing server} 587
and looking for a prompt back. Disconnect by typing QUIT, if you don't speak
SMTP by heart. ;-)
This uses a defined port and protocol, and is highly likely to be more portable
than some undefined port.
--
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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