Re: [Evolution] Changing Port 25 to Port 587

[John Maxwell <jmaxwell frii com>]

Kojak,
I am back in town, took my netbook with me to see if it could send 
email. I fired up WiFii radar, found a node and was sending and 
receiving email. I am now working with the default firewall to open port 
587 to get it to work on my Verizon ISP. Most frustrating.

John
> On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 22:01 -0700, John Maxwell wrote:
>   
> > Kojak,
> >
> > Verizon is my ISP in CA but my email is from my old ISP in CO.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > JohnAt 06:25 PM 10/15/2009, you wrote:
> >     
> > > It depends on what provider you use. it just happened to be
> > > smtp.live.com for msn, but Verizon might use something else.
> > > However, typically pop uses mail.xxx.com and smpt, mostly smtp.xxx.com
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 17:56 -0700, John Maxwell wrote:
> > >       
> > > > John Maxwell
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >         
> > > > > On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 15:46 -0700, John Maxwell wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >           
> > > > > > My ISP (Verizon) changed the rules for sending email. They now require
> > > > > > using port 587 to send email instead of the default 
>
> John, 
>
> If your Email is at another ISP, you can retrieve with pop from
> anywhere, but some ISP's don't allow Relaying, and therefore sometimes
> block smtp to another ISP. You will have to use the SMTP server from
> your active ISP. Or another option is using a google account to send
> email. This way you can always send through the google smtp servers. 
> or have your emails for your domain hosted by a hosting company as
> godaddy, domaindiscover.... 
>
> Don't know if I'm clear with my explanation. 
>
> Regards,
> M.Kojak.S
>
>