I was having enormous trouble configuring evolution on my Fedora 14 system to use smtp.gmail.com as an outgoing mail server. I switched to using comcast, and that worked fine. But I then went back and checked and found I had put smtp.comcast.net instead of smtp.comcast.net:587 When I added the ':587', then the comcast server stopped working. I then checked the gmail server and found I had added ':587'. I then deleted it, and the gmail server started working.
Let me explain. Originally, everyone by default used port 25. But ISPs, including comcast, my ISP, started blocking outpu t using prot 25 because spammers were using it. My outgoing email got blocked as a result.To fix it, I had to configure the server I was using to accept port 587 and then I had to set the server name to be smtp:xxx,xxx,xxx:587 and that is still the way my evolution account for that server is set up. And it still works. Now I think that comcast's server will not accept port 25, so it must be using 587. Similarly for the gmail server. So why does adding that ':587' stop outgoing mail from working? I find this very mysterious. Can anyone explain what is going on, and/or refer me to a document whih clarifies the matter? -- Leonard Evens l...@math.northwestern.edu Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
