sendmail help

David N. Lombard dnlombar at ichips.intel.com
Mon Mar 2 16:04:13 UTC 2009


On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 08:00:09AM -0800, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 February 2009 07:18:23 am Vladimir Dronnikov wrote:
> > Hi, Frank!
> > 
> > 2009/2/25 Frank Ianella <fjianella at gmail.com>:
> > > i am trying to use the sendmail applet to relay to smtp.gmail.com but
> > > cannot figure out the neccessary command syntax.
> > >
> > 
> > You can try working:
> > $ sendmail -H "exec openssl s_client -quiet -connect smtp.gmail.com:25
> > -tls1 -starttls smtp" -f user at gmail.com -F "Your real name here (pure
> > optional)"
> 
> Is it possible to use port 465? Port 25 sometimes is blocked by ISPs.

If an ISP blocks port 25, it's inbound; I've never heard of ISPs blocking
port 25 outside their IP range.  telnet could validate this in any event.

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David N. Lombard, Intel, Irvine, CA
I do not speak for Intel Corporation; all comments are strictly my own.


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