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

[Paul Sture]

On 2014-09-11, snowshoe <no at spam.please> wrote:
>
> Incoming mail works just fine.  I pointed the MX for a domain I have to 
> my ISP's address, and although dynamic, it rarely changed. I originally 
> had the VMS box as a normal mail server until the ISP took Port 25 away. 
>   It continued to receive email (still does) but I went elsewhere to do 
> most of my email. 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.

I was in a similar position to you.  My dynamic IP address was stable for
months on end and even survived power cuts.  At some point outgoing mail
became largely impossible because everyone started blocking dynamic IP
address ranges, and the next step was the ISP insisting on SMTP
authorisation.

At that point I moved to  a webhosting service which included an IMAP mail
server and I started using that.

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