Exim4, Debian and Rogers...

[Dave Cramer]

I just port forward port 24 to port 25 and tell people using rogers  
to switch to port 24.

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On 17-Aug-06, at 8:50 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

> It's been a _long_ time since I switched from Exim to Postfix, but  
> I suspect that the choice of MTA has little to do with the problem  
> at hand.
>
> Rogers definitely blocks port 25, the usual one for SMTP. Its  
> network will refuse to complete "normal" email connections;  
> sometimes silently, sometimes with an error. For your incoming mail  
> they expect you to fetch it with POP or IMAP, and for outgoing you  
> need to use some port besides 25 for your SMTP. I specify port 465  
> for outgoing SMTP connections (I seem to recall a support call in  
> which they recommended that port) and it works fine. Rogers may  
> even be mapping 465 to 25 internally for all I know.
>
> I think if you set your outgoing mail on Exim to port 465 you may  
> have some luck. If not, I'm not sure I can help further.
> You may want to manually diagnose the SMTP connections using telnet.
>
> In any case, I don't think Exim or Debian is to blame. This problem  
> also happens with Thunderbird clients on any OS.
>
> - Evan
>
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