[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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