Change Sendmail Port?
Kenneth Porter
shiva at sewingwitch.com
Sat Sep 10 08:45:25 UTC 2005
--On Friday, September 09, 2005 7:36 PM -0700 Corey Head
<coreyhead at gmail.com> wrote:
> Umm...I meant I would like to change the port that users send mail
> from...i.e. connect to the server. Is that not possible? I was
> thinking port 587 for sending, but does that mean every server coming
> into my server has to know that? I am running into the problem with
> roving users that have home ISPs that are blocking port 25 from their
> lines. So, users have to go in and change their mail servers when they
> get home, then change back when back in the office. Does that make a
> little more sense?
Users should always use 587. 25 is for server-to-server.
Use "lsof -i | grep sendmail" to see if your server is listening on both
ports.
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