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Date:      Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:52:16 -0500
From:      Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>
To:        "Derrick Ryalls" <ryallsd@gmail.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: sendmail secondary server routing to alternate port
Message-ID:  <6.0.0.22.2.20080819125132.025dc130@mail.computinginnovations.com>
In-Reply-To: <d5eb95fc0808191016v4c596fd4ne88c0409b1711e93@mail.gmail.co m>
References:  <d5eb95fc0808191016v4c596fd4ne88c0409b1711e93@mail.gmail.com>

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At 12:16 PM 8/19/2008, Derrick Ryalls wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>I recently had to rebuild my brother's all in one box to get a SATA
>controller working.  It is now running 7.0 release and was previously
>using courier and the mail system.  With this rebuild, I have switched
>him over to sendmail and most things are working, but I discovered a
>small issue with sendmail that I am having trouble working out.  As
>well as being his own primary email server, he acts as secondary for a
>couple of my domains, the tricky part is my ISP shut off port 25
>access to me (no, I am not a spammer) so I use port 587 for handling
>mail.  With courier, I was able to specify specific ports to
>communicate with on a per domain basis.  For example, if I was
>relaying for example.org on port 2345, I would specify
>example.org:2345 and that is the port it would use to talk to
>example.org.
>
>Now that I have switched to sendmail, I don't see a way to set the
>destination port on a per domain basis, only on an all or nothing
>basis.  Am I missing some piece of the documentation or is this an
>actual limitation of sendmail?

If you do nothing special, sendmail will handle both ports 587 and 25.

         -Derek

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