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Re: smtp redirection


From: Paul Russell <prussell () ND EDU>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 15:45:29 -0500

5/10/2005 3:12 PM, Flagg, Martin D. wrote:
That is the problem; they are not all on campus and the travel back and
forth with laptops and want email to work seamlessly.

On 5/10/2005 2:58 PM, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> If you mean "off-campus users need an SMTP server to submit mail", the
> canonical answer is "SMTP AUTH on port 587".  That's what it's *there* for,
> so users can submit mail even when port 25 is blocked.

Some Microsoft email clients insist on using port 465 for secure SMTP, despite
the fact that this has been deprecated by the IANA.

--
Paul Russell
Senior Systems Administrator
OIT Messaging Services Team
University of Notre Dame

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