Re: Fwd: Balsa default mail submission on TCP port 587, not port 25[major@satx.rr.com]

[<balsa microwave com>]

Perhaps, as was suggested, this should be made more apparent by adding a
"Port" field to the relevant dialog, which shows the default if it is not
changed.

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, major wrote:

> On 2001.07.02 07:16 major wrote:
>
> > I am currently using Balsa 1.1.6 and libesmtp 0.8.2. Apparently Balsa will
> > use TCP port 587 for Mail Message Submission by default, in accordance with
> > RFC2476 (see http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2476.html), and not TCP port 25 as
> > most persons seem to expect. I have noticed several messages on the
> > balsa-list@gnome.org mailing list which seem to show a misdiagnosis of
> > this behavior as various other problems related to firewalls, Domain Name
> > System timeouts, and unreproducible wierdness. The main symptom reported is
> > that mail submission takes an extremely long time to produce an error
> > message, and then the message is queued in the Outbox. By using tcpdump, I
> > have observed six connection attempts on TCP port 587 that are not answered
> > by my mail server, which apparently is not in compliance with RFC2476. To
> > compensate for this problem, simply specify the use of TCP port 25 in
> > Balsa's "Remote SMTP Server" preference under the "Mail Servers" tab. For
> > example, if I use "smtp-server.satx.rr.com." as my Remote SMTP Server
> > specification, Balsa will use TCP port 587, but if I use
> > "smtp-server.satx.rr.com.:25", Balsa will use TCP port 25.
>
> I submitted the previous message, but I did not realize that only list
> members could post without moderator approval. I received notification that
> my message awaited moderator approval, but that notification did not
> specify how long the moderator might take to approve; so I have joined the
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> submission. I apologize if this repost results in a message duplication.
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