[Novalug] Verizon annoyance again
Scott Talbert
swt@techie.net
Mon Jan 30 09:15:24 EST 2012
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012, Myriam Abramson wrote:
> Verizon decided to change their smtp port to 465 which requires SSL. I
> don't know how many of you were affected but there was little
> warning.
>
> I use sendmail (on Ubuntu) and I haven't been able to successfully
> incorporate SSL. I did download cyrus-sasl2 (the packages under
> Ubuntu) and tried to follow the complex instructions from
> http://www.howtoforge.com/howto_sendmail_smtp_auth_tls.
>
> Regarding auth, which username and password to you put in mail/certs?
> Any one or your Verizon ones?
>
> Could you explain this process or do you know of any easier
> instructions to follow that are fairly recent?
>
> I ended up switching to smtp.gmail.com which has a port 587 but
> knowing Google, this option can be pulled out at any time.
Hi,
What are you using sendmail for? A mail relay? I presume not a mail server
because I think verizon blocks port 25.
Scott
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