Re: [Evolution] Changing Port 25 to Port 587

[support plecavalier com]

Quoting "Adam Tauno Williams" <awilliam opengroupware us>:

> On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 22:00 -0700, John Maxwell wrote:
> > Phil & Kojak.t,
> > Using plain, TSL & SSL encryption, messages are received but no mail
> > is sent, the window just sits there. Authentication is checked or not
> > the results are the same. If I change the outgoing server from
> > mail.XXX.com to smtp.mail.XXX.com it attempts to send the mail but
> > has the following error message "Host lookup failed:
> > smtp.mail.XXX.com: Name or service not known" and is the only error
> > message I can get otherwise it sits there regardless of how long I
> > wait (several minutes).
>
> That makes sense; there probably is no "smtp.mail.XXX.com";  have you
> tried just "smtp.XXX.com"?  Or looking up what the setting should be.
> The port syntax XXX.YYY.ZZZ:### does work.  Our shop runs SMTP on
> TCP/21212 and specifying smtp.USUSUS.com:21212 works in evolution.
Yeah, getting the proper hostname from your ISP would be a real good start.

Phil