[Info-vax] SMTP server using port 587 outgoing?

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

snowshoe wrote 2014-09-11 22:47:
> Can anyone tell me the magic words to speak to SMTP to get it to use my
> ISP's outgoing mail server on port 587 (not port 25, which is blocked)?
> I don't have a recent version of the White Wall and Google is useless.
>
> It uses SMTP AUTH which means I have to supply the ISP user/password
> combo as well as an outgoing mail server name/address.
>

Not supported using TCP/IP Services.
My ISP closed down port 25 outgoing mail last year.

I used the SMTP module in Python to create a simple
mail sending tool (including attachements). Worked
OK, just called a COM file istead if $ mail, and only
used from batch jobs on the system (all personal mail
are of course not on the VMS system...).

Jan-Erik.


> Right now, the default is direct to MX on port 25 which is blocked, so no
> mail gets out.  This is a hobby system.  Thanks in advance.