stephen buckmelter wrote: > iPlanet Messaging Server allows you to define an alternate > port (465 by default) for tls connections. When I specified > smtp.server.com:465 in the preferences, and set the secure > connection option, I get an error that the sending of the > message failed...unable to connect to server. > > I've had success with other clients being able to use this > alternate port, and I'm wondering if there are any plans to > allow mozilla to do the same. I know that there are rfc > issues with the alternate port.
I think mozilla 0.9.7 does not interpret host:port. Instead of resolving host it tries to resolve host:port, which of course fails. :) My firewall now takes care of forwarding port 25 to the non standard port of the smtps server. ( iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 25 -s $CLIENT -d $SMTP -j DNAT --to $SMTP:465 )
