Exim4, Debian and Rogers...

[James Knott]

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 use port 587 to send email via Rogers, when I'm away from their network.

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