Ahoj, Dňa Mon, 28 Jul 2014 18:37:54 +0100 Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> napísal: > No need to be sorry. The simplification was fine. It's just that here > mutt and other MUAs connect to exim for direct mail delivery. I wanted > to clarify that servers can also be clients. It is named as "with smarthost", it can be easy set by the dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config dialog ;) > > I want to point, that for end users is intended the 587 port, as > > mentioned someone other too, and IMO it is not a good opinion to > > suggest to try (check) the port 25, if the 587 is provided. Another > > goal is, that there are some ISP, which don't > > blocks/redirects/proxies the 587 port yet ;-) > > brian@desktop:~$ nmap -Pn mail.o2.co.uk > > Starting Nmap 6.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2014-07-28 18:30 BST > Nmap scan report for mail.o2.co.uk (82.132.141.69) > Host is up (0.047s latency). > Not shown: 998 filtered ports > PORT STATE SERVICE > 25/tcp open smtp > 110/tcp open pop3 > > Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 7.61 seconds Beware, port scan can be criminal in some countries... > Whether they direct all outgoing port 25 trafic to their own server I > do not know. Try ask your email provider to enable 587 port, pointing to the mentioned RFC ;) > Your observation that ISPs could also interfere with port 587 doesn't > cheer me up. :) It is black side of the freedom... regards -- Slavko http://slavino.sk
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