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

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <lv2a9g$brd$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble
<davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 

> Phillip says he's currently using (as in using right now) a capability, 
> while others are telling him that it won't work ....

Not exactly.  My ISP hasn't blocked outgoing port 25 (nor, as far as I
know, any ports).  Rather, I found that many recipients and/or mail
routers along the way block email from dynamic IP addresses as an
anti-spam measure.  So, I needed to relay through a trusted SMTP relay 
server, and fortunately my dynamic-DNS provider offers such a service.

Also, not "right now" since I don't use email for usenet, but rather
NEWSRDR, which talks to an NNTP server at my DSL provider 1&1 (as
opposed to my dynamic-DNS provider Dynaccess). 

Access to both the SMTP relay server and the NNTP server is based on IP 
address, since obviously both companies know the current IP addresses of 
their customers.  Thus, I have fully functional SMTP doing everything at 
my end without any need for SMTP AUTH and can also access an NNTP server 
using the rather old but nice NEWSRDR software, which also doesn't 
support authentication (AFAIK, but I've never had to check).  For those 
who don't know, NEWSRDR is a character-cell newsreader, written in C and 
with BOOKREADER documentation, which runs on VMS and has an interface 
intentionally similar to VMS MAIL, both in the commands themselves and 
in the use of the keypad.

Wandering over into the desktop thread, for this "desktop application"
all I need is a terminal (emulator), which of course is no problem on
VMS.  But say I want to cut and paste a URL into a post.  OK, I can run
LYNX (a character-cell based web browser, written in C, which runs on
VMS (and other platforms)...) in another window, but some websites are
so crippled that they won't display in LYNX.  So, I need a graphical web
browser.  OK, fire up Mozilla, which is usually OK, but then there are
pages which are so full of bells and whistles that it is too slow, so I
need a more efficient web browser.  OK, I could run that elsewhere and
direct the display to my graphics monitor on VMS, but I don't want to
have to log in somewhere else and run a web browser just to do this.
Also, when I download something from or upload to the web to or from my
VMS machine, I don't want to have to have some other machine just
because "VMS is not for the desktop".  Yes, I regularly use Mozilla
and/or LYNX on VMS to upload stuff to or download stuff from the web, 
not just for browsing and reading stuff on the screen.