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

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <lv00c0$g90$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
<seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 

> > You can use MAIL> FORWARD.  Note that the /USER in SET FORWARD (if you 
> > do it from a priviledged account) doesn't have to be a user on the  
> > system.  It doesn't even have to be a valid VMS username.
> 
> True, but that's not at all relevent when attempting to establish 
> authenticated SMTP forwarding with TCP/IP Services; a feature which 
> does not exist in TCP/IP Services.

Right.  He said he wanted to forward it to another account.  If that is 
outside his LAN then, yes, he probably needs an SMTP relay server.  But 
there are some which do authorization based on the IP address, so (as I 
do) one can use them without STMP AUTH.