Changing SendMail Port Number

Scott Kupferschmidt sk at isprime.com
Sat Jun 5 17:32:17 PDT 2004


The only problem with listening on port 24 is no one is going to be able
to send mail to you, as smtp listens on port 25.

Sincerely,

Scott Kupferschmidt
ISPrime, Inc.
866.502.4678 ext. 3
AIM: Scott ISPrime - ICQ: 174337249

On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Doug Hardie wrote:

> 
> On Jun 5, 2004, at 16:49, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> 
> > This is probably a stupid question, but how do I change the SMTP port 
> > number that SendMail listens in on? I want to change it to something 
> > else, like perhaps 24. My ISP is blocking 25 and I want to get around 
> > that problem.
> 
> I use the following in the mc file:
> 
> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=25, Name=MTA')dnl
> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=26, Name=MTA')dnl
> 
> 
> It responds to both ports 25 and 26.
> 
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