From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 26 05:46:38 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F156C16A417 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:46:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E057813C45A for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:46:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 348E81CC07B; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:46:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:46:36 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" Message-ID: <20071126054636.GA5961@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <474A577F.3090307@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <474A577F.3090307@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Submitting a new port if send-pr is broken X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:46:39 -0000 On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 12:19:59AM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > Due to a ISP firewall it is not possible for me to send/recv mail how > do I submit a new port since send-pr requires email? If your ISP filters outbound TCP port 25, then it means they're probably doing so to stop/curb spam or trojans that proliferate through SMTP. They likely leave TCP port 587 open to the world (but there's no guarantee of that either). Every ISP I've seen who does the above outbound filtering does so while providing their own SMTP server available for customer use -- and provides a firewall hole for communicating with their own SMTP servers on TCP port 25. If your ISP filters outbound port 25 and doesn't offer you an SMTP server of their own for use, then that's truly bizarre and you should discuss it with your ISP. You should be able to set up a local mailer/MTA (sendmail, postfix, etc.) and tell it to use your ISP's mail server on TCP port 25, and it all should just "magically work" unless they require SMTP AUTH (not many do from what I've seen; they base authentication on the source IP of customers). sendmail refers to this feature as SMART_HOST, while postfix refers to it as a transport destination (see transport(5)). -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |