Thread: N900 port forwarding for eMail - when port 25 blocked by ISP ?
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uTMY is offline uTMY
2010-06-09 , 16:27
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Originally Posted by breakd0wn View Post
I really don't understand the problem here.

Your ISP blocks port 25. Many do.

You run your own mail server, so simply run smtp on a different or additional port.

Then when you setup the account on the n900, instead of the default port 25, you enter the port you chose to listen on.

Forget port 25 even exists. It's your mail server, you can run it on any port you want.
Hi Breakd0wn

You are right you could easily change the port on the SMTP server but in my case, I have many other components installed on my server already configured to use smtp service on port 25 and it would have meant changing those too, also each service I required would then need seperate configurations.

With the OpenVPN option every service I host on/through my home server becomes available to me with just one very secure configuration, much easier networking and if I lose the phone I can easily revoke the certificate.

rgds