[Info-vax] pop mail change

Stephen Hoffman seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid
Tue Feb 26 13:29:28 EST 2013


On 2013-02-26 17:10:06 +0000, Tom Linden said:

> I guess I didn't adequately explain my situation.  I run my own mail servers
> on VMS with TCPIP and mx.  I use Outlook as my pop client on XP at home 
> and connect
> through comcast to the internet.  These are dynamic IPs of course.  
> Comcast is blocking
> port 25 so I don't get to my servers.  So what I would like is to 
> change  from port 25 to
> 587 (as you corrected me) and my question related to what I needed to 
> do with TCPIP in order
> to permit me to send outgoing pop mail through the server.  How do I 
> configure it to accept this?

Short answer: "no".
Long answer: "no, TCP/IP Services does not support the submission port 
feature."
Longer answer: "try a different or better or more current mail server, 
either on VMS or another platform, or start writing some code, or use a 
VPN."


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