linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Two users on one computer

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:1234@smtp.example.com: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 <cs@zip.com.au>

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