Re: [CSCMail-Users] Sending Mail Issue

[Count Z. <cou...@cy...>]

Yeah, in the C version that will be completely configurable... for now, you
can simply edit cscsend, line 60, where it says "PeerPort => 'smtp(25)'"
make it say "PeerPort => '8025'" or whatever port you want to tunnel
through...

-Count Zero

----- Original Message -----
From: "strider corinth" <st...@cc...>
To: "Count Zero" <cou...@cy...>
Cc: <csc...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: [CSCMail-Users] Sending Mail Issue


> >Ok, that means cscsend can't establish a TCP connection to your SMTP
server
> >on port 25... To be honest, it's also a "bug" in cscsend in that we don't
do
> >good error checking on stuff like that...
> >
> >But the quick fix is for you to make sure that your SMTP server settings
are
> >correct in your account configuration....
> >
> >You might try telnetting to port 25 of your SMTP server, to make sure you
> >can connect that way...
> >
> >telnet smtp.someisp.com 25
> >
> >In future versions of CSCMail I will be doing better checking in routines
> >like this one, so that a nice friendly error message pops up saying
> >something like "Unable to connect to SMTP server, check settings and try
> >again"  but for now it is a bit less user friendly... sorry
>
> No prob. I'm sure that's the problem... when I was using an ssh tunnel
> before (which worked for POP) it didn't work, and didn't say it couldn't
be
> reached, so I assumed that wasn't the problem without really checking. I
> should've been more thorough.
>
> Speaking of tunneling, it'd be really great if we could choose the port
that
> SMTP travels over as well as POP. I don't like using root to set up my SSH
> tunnel, but I have to as long as smtp will only work on port 25. I'm sure
I
> could hack it, but for the long term could that be added as a feature?
>
> - John
>
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