On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 13:05 +0100, Constantin Orăsan wrote: > Hi, > > > > > Thanks Richard, > > I've found this: > > http://www.linuxmail.info/postfix-change-port > > > > Next question then: > > -How do I change the SMTP port number on Evolution into 587? Is it > > possible customize the port number individually for each mail account in > > Evolution or is the change global for all accounts? > > > > I do not have access here to evolution to test it, but I am pretty > sure that all you have to do is to put the name of the server followed > by :port > > eg. smtp.mail.com:587 > > You can do this for every account. Go to Edit->Preferences. Edit the > account, make the changes to the tab "Sending options" (or something > like this). > > good luck > > dinel
Many thanks Dinel, That worked beautiful! Everything works great now and I no longer have any problems with my ISP's blocking of port 25. As I googled around, I've found that blocking port 25 is very common among ISPs. So I can enlighten everyone what I did in order to make it work: As I use Postfix on the mailserver, I opened the file: /etc/postfix/master.cf and added this line under the existing smtp line like this: smtp inet n - - - - smtpd (existing) 587 inet n - - - - smtpd (added) Then restart the mailserver. Now the mailserver is listening on both port 25 and 587! Then I added the :587 in the Evolution settings for the actual mail account like this: smtp.mail.com:587 /Peter _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
