Re: [exim] Opening additional SMTP ports

On 29 Jan 2005, Bradley Walker wrote:

> Due to my ISP filtering out Port 25 to their SMTP servers and this
> causing headaches trying to email users on my server without the mail
> getting rejected... how do I go about opening another port other than
> 25? Would it be possible to open port 125 for example. And have Exim
> listen on both 25 and the new port? If so what changes do I need to
> make in the/etc/exim.conf file to accomplish this?

Example to open 587 (the proper port for submission) as well as 25:

daemon_smtp_ports = 25:587

(note you may/should also restrict access to that port to only
authenticated users)

Tim