[BlueOnyx:06296] Re: set smtp to allow roaming users?

[Jeffrey Pellin]

Hi,

Have you thought of enabling z-push and connecting via Exchange? It might
be a whole lot simpler to maintain.

Regards

Jeffrey

On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:52:12 -0900, Jim Dory <jdory at nomealaska.org> wrote:
> I've been researching how to allow users to use Thunderbird instead of 
> webmail when traveling with their laptops.
> 
> I enabled smtps in the GUI for port 465 (in case various ISPs are 
> blocking port 25) and figure it may be the easiest to set up.. but it 
> isn't yet working when I tested it last night. A "netstat -tupan | grep 
> 465" shows sendmail listening.
> 
> There is also port 587. To let Thunderbird use that, I assume you need 
> to manually specify that port in the smtp config dialog in Thunderbird 
> and does it use STARTTLS? It looks like I have to uncomment this line in 
> the sendmail.mc file:
> dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=submission, Name=MSA, M=Ea')
> so that sendmail listens.
> 
> Am I on the right track? There is also this line:
> dnl FEATURE(delay_checks)dnl
> Perhaps I need to uncomment.
> 
> thanks for any help, JD