Troy Murray writes:

> [much of long story omitted]
>
> Finally I changed my Outlook 2003 to use port 465 for SMTP over SSL and was
> able to send messages out.  I re-enabled NIS 2004 and NAV 2004 and was still
> able to send message.  Curiously I checked
> http://help.msu.edu/mail/documentation/netscape.htm for the mozilla.org mail
> client configuration and it shows port 25 as the one to use, not 465.
>
> Long story for a short answer I suppose, but I wanted to share it in case
> someone else runs into this same problem.

Port 25 is correct for non-SSL, and 465 for SSL.

I checked my own Mozilla config (same as the recent Netscape), and my
preferences leave the port number box blank.  That's probably the best
approach if it works.  In MS Outlook Express, it looks like you can
click on "Use Defaults" - you might start with that and then check the
"requires SSL" checkbox.

I'll pass this on to our documentation folks to see if some improvements
can be made.

Doug


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