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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

snowshoe wrote 2014-09-11 23:46:
> On 09/11/2014 05:05 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>
>> You're about the billionth person to discover that trying to run a mail
>> server on a dynamic IP and with port blocks in place — that's best
>> practices for most ISPs, too, as differentiating a mail server from a
>> spam engine isn't obvious — involves shenanigans.  Unfortunately, this
>> all involves somewhat more shenanigans on OpenVMS.
>
> Thanks, Steve. I am really trying to forward mail off the VMS box to
> another account, and the easiest way seemed to be MAIL>FORWARD. I guess
> not. I assume such things as POP and IMAP are right out.
>
>> On 2014-09-11 20:47:02 +0000, snowshoe said:
>>
>>> 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)?
>>
>> Relay through another local box, or subscribe to a mail hop service, or
>> switch to another IP stack.
>
> How do I set up such a relay (VMS side setup)?

The relay is not on the VMS box. You just point to (alternate
gateway) to some box that then "relays" the mails.

> And VMS doesn't know SMTP AUTH?

Now, *VMS* doesn't know anything about SMTP!

"TCP/IP Services" doesn't know about SMTP AUTH.

Other TCP/IP stacks does know about SMTP AUTH.

And, as I wrote before, you can use some totaly different
SMTP tool, such as the SMTP module in  Python.

> Right now I wanted to forward email I want to save to another
> account, and it appeared updating the VMS configuration was the easiest
> way. I guess not.

Maybe simply extracting all mails to a file and save that one?

Jan-Erik.
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