SMTP on port other than 25 through DNS???

Igmar Palsenberg maillist at chello.nl
Mon Jan 8 16:31:58 UTC 2001


On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, amh wrote:

> 
> Not to get into a diatribe about sendmail here, but it IS possible, just not
> very practical. It would require there being another mailserver in between,
> which collected all email, and configured to send to the final mailer on the
> non-standard port. I've done it, and for the same reason (rr.com blocking
> port 25), but if you have control of that other mailserver in between
> anyway, why bother using the cablemodem machine as a mailserver.

That still means that he must control the mailhub. But indeed, it is a
solution.



	Igmar




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