[NTLUG:Discuss] Sendmail auth

[Richard Geoffrion]

Richard Humphrey wrote:
> Update: Just called my ISP and 2 people confirmed that they are not
> blocking any ports through their networks. So the problem lies
> somewhere in my system.

FYI I've had ISPs flat out LIE to me.  There WAS filtering on port 25.  Just
because they say there isn't, doesn't mean there isn't.  And sometimes it
might not be the ISP filtering it but the ISPs upstream provider!  ehh ehh!
Yeah!  I've started putting a secondary  SMTP service on another port.  I
think sendmail uses port 537 by default for that.

At least I remember a time when 537 (or some such port) came preconfigured
in sendmail.  (I have of course sworn off sendmail because I'm not gonna go
Bug Hunting for security issues in sendmail..but hey!  To each his own.
)  )

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