sendmail not listening on port 465

[Jeffrey Goldberg]

On Feb 17, 2009, at 3:41 PM, Seur Bors wrote:

> I'm having problems with Sendmail. Everything is working fine,  
> except that
> the sendmail daemon is not listening on port 465. [...]

> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s')dnl

You are aware that using port 465 was never fully a standard is, at  
best, deprecated.

Your daemon options say to use port "smtps", check to see whether that  
is defined in /etc/services
and see what happens if you replace Port=smtps with Port=465

But do reconsider whether you need to be listening on 465 in the first  
place.  You can (and should) simply use TLS on the submission port, 587.

-j



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