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Re: Connect to a smarthost on a port different than 25?



Hi

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:22:25AM +0100, Pål Dahle wrote:
> When at work I can successfully send email from my Debian 
> laptop using exim4.
> 
> >From home, however, I do not manage to connect to the smarthost. 
> The reason is that port 25 is blocked for all connections outside 
> the firewall. Outside the firewall, the smarthost accepts 
> connections, via another port xxx however.
> 
> How do I instruct exim4 to use this port?
> 
> In mozilla-mail setting up this redirection is a breeze. I think
> the smtp port used for connection should be one of the questions 
> asked in the "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config".
> 
> Suggestions?

Try host.port or host::port (or maybe ip.add.re.ss.port or ip.add.re.ss::port).

> 
> 
> Anyway, thanks to the debian-developers for doing such a great
> job with the distribution. 
> 
> Cheers,
> Pål
> 

HTH
-- 
Joachim Fahnenmüller

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A:	A doberman.



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