Re: general balsa first-time user frustrations

[Hal <klingons speakeasy org>]

Thanks for the clarifications.  It seems that you are "ahead of the curve"
on implementing this port change vis a vis the defaults in the
distributions and the ISP's.  

Incidentally, I must have an old README since I still haven't found the
reference.  

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On 2001.06.27 02:54 Brian Stafford wrote:
> On Wed, 27 June 01:40 Hal wrote:
> | A guess on your first problem: did you put the port number (25) after
> | the smtp server name (e.g. mail.isp.com:25).  Unlike "many" mail
> | clients, Balsa doesn't seem to assume a port.
> 
> Balsa *does* assume a port.  However the default port is 587 which
> is the new standard port for mail *submission* using SMTP (see
> RFC 2476).  This is explained in Balsa's README and the sgml docs.
> 
> As an aside, now that libESMTP uses the Posix resolver interface
> it is probably better to specify hostname:submission or hostname:smtp
> rather than hostname:587 or hostname:25 respectively.
> 
> Brian Stafford
> 
> 
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