Re: SMTP SSL on Port Other than 25
- From: "Noel All" <noelall@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 09:49:47 +0100
You contact you local Microsoft PSS and ask for the hotfix
"Mark Olbert" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I've just spent six frustruating hours trying to get Outlook XP to use
> SSL/TLS over SMTP on a port
> other than 25. Why? Because the ISP I use when I travel - AOL - has some
> idiot system in place that
> redirects any attempts to connect to any computer's port 25 to their own
> mailservers. So I can't
> access my personal mail server from on the road.
>
> Now, based on everything that I saw in the email account configuration
> dialog box for Outlook this
> ought to be a piece of cake. Just click the box on the Connection tab of
> the Advanced settings to
> indicate SSL, specify the port number and voila!
>
> Unfortunately, this is Outlook, probably one of the crappiest email
> clients ever created, from one
> of the lowest-quality software developers in the history of the industry.
> And that, as the old
> saying goes, is really saying something.
>
> I know the SSL/TLS subsystem on my mail server is working fine, because I
> >>can<< connect on the
> standard smtp port, 25.
>
> So what's the solution? I've come across references to some kind of post
> Office XP SP3 hotfix (I
> have SP3 installed; the OS is Windows XP SP2, up-to-date) that may cure
> the problem. Is this true?
> If so, how do I get it? I couldn't find anything in the download section
> of the Outlook website.
>
> - Mark
.
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