Re: [Evolution] Still having trouble configuring evolution to use outgoing mail server at port 587

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 07:35 -0500, Leonard Evens wrote:
> I have been trying to (A) configure my office machine (using RedHat) to 
> act as an outgoing mail server using port 587 and (B) to configure 
> evolution on my home machine (Fedora 11) for sending email through
> my office machine.
>
> I think I've managed to configure sendmail.mc on the office machine
> to use port 587. 
> nmap office-machine
> run on my home machine yields (among other things)
> 25/tcp    filtered smtp
> 587/tcp   open     submission
> (I need the 25/tcp so my office machine continues to accept other
> incoming mail so as to act as a mail transfer agent.)

Are you sure that sendmail is actually listening on the right port (nmap
just says that *something* is listening)? Are you sure that the Evo
machine is sending to the same port? Try telnetting to that port and see
if you get the SMTP greeting.

> But I can't configure evolution to send mail using my office
> machine.  Nothing I try works.

You need to be more explicit. What have you tried? How does it fail?

poc