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Authored by: ragnar on Jul 08, '02 01:33:19PM

Some readers may be wondering why anyone would want to change the port. I have a reason:

I frequently switch between my home network, dial up and my girlfriend's DSL provider. The phone dialup and the DSL provider are fascists about port 25 and disallow any traffic over that port unless it goes through their SMTP. In principle this is probably a good thing since it decreases the spam load, but it is a pain in the butt for me to change the settings (manually, since Mail.app isn't location aware) each time I hop around.

Since I have administrative privs on my company mail server (and it is a small company) I think I'll change the port number to make my life easier.

There you have it... an actual use for the tip, albeit an esoteric one.



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