Bug#265390: to smarthost via port 587

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 05:46:30AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Gentlemen, my free ISP will soon blockade port 25. How shall I then
> get to my smarthost?

They obviously want you to use _their_ smarthost.

> Anyways my lack of knowledge combined with this being Debian might
> soon leave me in read only mode as far as email goes. Help. How does
> one tell exim to use a different port number?

One reads the specs and sets the appropriate private option on the
remote_smtp_smarthost router.

> $ grep DCsmarthost /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
> DCsmarthost = fraudo.snoresh.net
>   route_list = * DCsmarthost byname
>   hosts_try_auth = ${if exists {CONFDIR/passwd.client}{DCsmarthost}{}}

Do not read the autogenerated config, it is stripped of all comments
which might prove helpful.

Greetings
Marc

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