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Re: ingress SMTP

  • From: Winders, Timothy A
  • Date: Sun Sep 07 17:54:36 2008

On 9/7/08 4:51 PM, "Eugeniu Patrascu" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On Sep 8, 2008, at 12:31 AM, Michael Thomas wrote:
> 
>> Eugeniu Patrascu wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Sep 3, 2008, at 8:08 PM, Winders, Timothy A wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, setting up a 587 submit server internally would be best, but
>>>> man power
>>>> is at a premium and it hasn't happened.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I don't know what SMTP server you're using, but on Postfix you just
>>> need to uncomment one line in master.cf, do a reload and that's it.
>>> it takes less than a minute to do it on server. YMMV.
>> Would that it were so easy :) You also have the more daunting task
>> of hooking up your auth/aaa infrastructure with your MTA's, and all
>> of the care and feeding that entails.
>> 
> IIRC the OP said that he was already doing AUTH on port 25, and this
> was the basis for my email stating it's quite easy.
> 

Correct on all accounts.  I got 587 up and running last week.

Tim Winders | Associate Dean of Information Technology | South Plains
College