Re: [Evolution] Changing Port 25 to Port 587

[George Reeke <reeke mail rockefeller edu>]

On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 08:12 -0700, John Maxwell wrote:
> Adam,
> I have tried all of those variations including mail.XXX.com:587, 
> smtp.XXX.com:587 and restarting the machine between changes, 
> unfortunately they have not worked. Originally mail.XXX.com worked 
> for years before Verizon made the changes Monday. My email server is 
> at my old ISP that we have used for years. A call to them revealed 
> that mail.XXX.com is the proper syntax and if the email client needs 
> port 587 then it resides with the client and the host isp.
>
> On the windows side Eudora 7 and outlook express made the conversion 
> fine but if tried thunderbird and it exhibits the same problem.
>
> An interesting problem.
>
> John
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Maybe port 587 is blocked by the firewall on your client machine.
George Reeke