Re: [Evolution] I know it's not about Evolution, but...

[Peter Privat <peter privat breilind com>]

On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 13:05 +0100, Constantin OrÄsan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Thanks Richard,
> > I've found this:
> > http://www.linuxmail.info/postfix-change-port
> >
> > Next question then:
> > -How do I change the SMTP port number on Evolution into 587? Is it
> > possible customize the port number individually for each mail account in
> > Evolution or is the change global for all accounts?
>
> I do not have access here to evolution to test it, but I am pretty
> sure that all you have to do is to put the name of the server followed
> by :port
>
> eg. smtp.mail.com:587
>
> You can do this for every account. Go to Edit->Preferences. Edit the
> account, make the changes to the tab "Sending options" (or something
> like this).
>
> good luck
>
> dinel

Many thanks Dinel,
That worked beautiful!

Everything works great now and I no longer have any problems with my
ISP's blocking of port 25.

As I googled around, I've found that blocking port 25 is very common
among ISPs. So I can enlighten everyone what I did in order to make it
work:

As I use Postfix on the mailserver, I opened the file:
/etc/postfix/master.cf
and added this line under the existing smtp line like this:
smtp inet n - - - - smtpd  (existing)
587 inet n - - - - smtpd   (added)
Then restart the mailserver.
Now the mailserver is listening on both port 25 and 587!

Then I added the :587 in the Evolution settings for the actual mail
account like this: smtp.mail.com:587

/Peter