ARMweb email port use

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> from the help line
>I was buzzing around the ARMWEB Ethernet Services portion of the documentation
and I failed to see a way to specify a port for mail and I don\'t know if
smtp.myisp.com:200 would be valid.
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>Verizon does not use the standard SMTP port for outgoing messages.
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>Same goes for http or ftp etc.
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>I do know omitting the mail port seems to be an oversight in some products.

We do use port 25 for mail. I use Eudora and it offers port 587 as an option.
An arbitrary port doesn't seem to be very useful. And we haven't had any
requests before to move from port 25.

As for ftp, the ARMweb intention is not to be a general ftp server, its just a
way to load up web pages, much more common for people than compiling them into
the program, which many other embedded servers require.

On http we've used our router to remap ports.

Couldn't you do the same for mail?

Looking for feedback from the field here...

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The port25 comment was from me.

Here is a general discussion: http://www.theblog.ca/shaw-telus-smtp
Verizon uses port 587.

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One thing I used to do all the time, but I don't do it anymore.

I would set the outgoing email server to verizon, but I was able to specify a
from address not of the email domain.

So, I was able to authenticate using the Verizon credentials e.g email, but say
that the email came from another domain. At that time it was .edu. Thus I
could use Outlook when I brought my laptop to work and at home with no
configuration changes.

I have basically switched to emails in both the yahoo and gmail domains for
different purposes.

I still have a "permanent" email in the .edu domain which will do nothing but
forward. It's sole purpose is to allow Alumni to locate me.
I can't change the forwarding address directly.

With routers, you can generally map the incoming ports, not the outgoing ones.