Port 25 not working? Try 587

I’m sat here getting rather annoyed with the fact that I’m having to reply to emails by writing them in Apple Mail then cutting and pasting them into my sodding web browser to send them out.

I’m just about to pack up and go home when I get a mail in from regular SMS Text News reader Hardeep Johal, Software Developer for Rapide, who, incidentally help organisations like yours communicate faster with groups of staff and customers 😉

(That’s what it says on Hardeep’s signature anyway!)

Not 15 minutes after posting the post about port 25 not working had passed when I had a mail in from Hardeep. He suggested I try using port 587 to send outgoing mail instead of 25. I was a little bit suspect. I didn’t think it would work.

I made the change and sat there, arms folded … until I noticed the mails had started sending successfully.

Kudos Hardeep. Thank you very much. In his mail he said that he’d had the same problem on public networks before and tried the 587 port switch which worked. Smart. Worked here!

If you’re ever in Corney & Barrow on Paternoster Square, that’s what you need to do if you want to send mail, right?