[Evolution] Bug#432584: Bug#432584: evolution: Cannot send via SMTP server on port != 25

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On ven, 2009-01-30 at 09:44 +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> severity 432584 important
> thanks
> 
> I believe this is an important bug, since it implies two major 
> drawbacks to the user:

I disagree.
> 
> (1) The UI does not provide an option to specify the SMTP port which 
> is to be used. It can be set via 'smtp.xxx.yyy:port', sure, but this 
> isn't documented anyhere! I think there should be either (a) a field 
> next to the server adress where you can specify the port -- and which 
> is defaulted to 25 -- or there should be (b) an example or some other 
> kind of hint that explains to me what I am supposed to type into the 
> address field.

address:port is the standard way to do that, everywhere. That's exactly
the way you set it in an address bar in whatever browser, if you want
not to use the default port.

Sure a tooltip would be nice. Severity wishlist, will see if there's
something like that on GNOME bugzilla.

> (2) Once I've got this far and found out how to specify the SMTP port, 
> Evolution omits it and still sends over port 25 if it is available. 
> WTF?! I mean, my service provider begs me to use a different port than 
> 25, I manage to change the port and finally Evolution decides to use 
> the default port, because it is still available. What does Evolution 
> think it is to override my settings? FAIL! ;)

I can't reproduce this. I use an ssh tunnel to send mail, and as I want
to make the tunnel as user, I use localhost:8025 as smtp address. It
work fine since ages. And I tried to open localhost:25, and nothing
happens on that port, it correctly use the 8025 port.

Are you sure you've configured the right account? Remember if you have
multiple “from” accounts that you can configure an smtp server for each
one, so double check that please.

So really I don't think it's an Important bug.
-- 
Yves-Alexis