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Re: skirting port blocking?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:12:26 GMT
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On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:28:37PM +0000, Tim Courtney wrote:
> 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?
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 different port, which is usually not very
easy to do, even if it is possible.
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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| (...) Thanks. My client (Outbreak XP) allows me to change the port for my SMTP connection, but it doesn't look like it allows for multiple ports. I suppose that's OK if my ISP agrees to listen on another port in addition, though. -Tim (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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