{"id":47,"date":"2011-12-22T12:50:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T16:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mypain\/?p=47"},"modified":"2011-12-22T13:10:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T17:10:53","slug":"fios-blocks-outbound-smtp-gah-danger-danger-port-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mypain\/2011\/12\/22\/fios-blocks-outbound-smtp-gah-danger-danger-port-25\/","title":{"rendered":"fios blocks outbound smtp. gah!  danger, danger &#8211; port 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FIOS blocks outbound SMTP, and I&#8217;m fairly comfortable saying <strong>every<\/strong> household ISP should. However, you can use their outbound SMTP servers as a relay to get around this. I had to configure this last night with postfix and I have to say it was trivial to set up.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up inserting this to my postfix main.cf:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: 1px solid #DADADA; background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #F0F0F0; font-family: Consolas,Monaco,;\">relayhost = &#91;outgoing&#46;verizon&#46;net&#93;\r\nsmtp_connection_cache_destinations = outgoing&#46;verizon&#46;net\r\nsmtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes\r\nsmtp_sasl_password_maps = static:username@verizon.net:password\r\nsmtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous\r\ndefault_destination_concurrency_limit = 4\r\nsoft_bounce = yes\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Thanks to <a title=\"Jason Haruska\" href=\"http:\/\/haruska.com\/2009\/01\/30\/ubuntu-postfix-setup-on-verizon-fios\/\">Jason Haruska<\/a> for the pointers.<\/p>\n<p>Restart postfix, test (man postfix| mail root -s &#8220;some light reading for you&#8221;) and requeue all the borked messages (postsuper -r ALL) and you are on your way.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned this to some of my geeky counterparts and they looked at me and said &#8220;Oh, yeah, that rocks, I did that a ways back with Exim.&#8221;\u00a0 It seems its even easier with exim, you just need to add your username and password to \/etc\/exim4\/passwd.client.\u00a0 For full instructions on how to do this, check out the <a title=\"gmail\/exim\" href=\"http:\/\/wiki.debian.org\/GmailAndExim4\">gmail\/exim<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>My pain your sent mail (I lie, this was not so much of a pain, rather fun).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIOS blocks outbound SMTP, and I&#8217;m fairly comfortable saying every household ISP should. However, you can use their outbound SMTP servers as a relay to get around this. I had to configure this last night with postfix and I have to say it was trivial to set up. I ended up inserting this to my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1855,1836,14030,1100,1838],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-configs","category-email","category-exim","category-linux","category-postfix","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mypain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mypain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mypain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mypain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mypain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mypain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mypain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mypain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mypain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mypain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}