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Re: skirting port blocking?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:36:28 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dan Boger wrote:
> 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?
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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 different port, which is usually not very
> easy to do, even if it is possible.
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
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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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