Scott says: | I'm going to recommend my own page. | http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/mutt.html [...] | If your ISP uses a secure server, then it would read something like | | set smtp_url="smtps://john:[email protected]:465 | | 465 is the standard port for smtps. However, always check with your ISP, | or read their setup information for sending mail. Gmail uses | authentication and TSL, I believe, and for sending, you need to use port | 587. The last time I looked, their help site said that you could either | one, but thanks to a post in their forums by K. Frazier, I found that | 587 seems to be necessary.
Actually, 465 is just distressingly common, not standard. The standard is 25 (plain old SMTP) using the STARTTLS common to enter TLS before delivering the message. See: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3207 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smtp#Ports Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. - Robert Wilensky of the University of California See also: RFC2795 ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
