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skirting port blocking?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Date:
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Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:28:37 GMT
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I have wifi access at my school with my laptop, but the school's network blcoks
port 25, so I can't connect to my SMTP servers to send mail there. They only
allow people to connect through their server, for 'security reasons.' Since I
spend a significant amount of my day at school getting work done, this is quite
an inconvenience for me.
Short of lobbying to change school policy (which I want to do, this school is
too dang expensive to not be able to send mail through my client), is there any
way I can get around this?
Thanks!
-Tim
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Sure - set up your SMTP server to listen on a different port as well (not instead!) of 25... Or set up your firewall to forward connection from that other port to 25 as well. That's assuming you can set your mail client to connect to a (...) (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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