Topic: "SMTP after POP " for remote sending of mail?

[bhamail]

While looking over the features of SME, I think I have finally found the replacement for our old family Qube3. One question regarding email though:

The Qube had a nice "SMTP-after-POP" feature - remote users could only send SMTP outgoing mail for 15 or so minutes after they had signed into their POP mail account. This allows the SMTP server to be used remotely to send email, but doesn't leave it open all the time for relaying, etc. Any idea if SME or a contrib supports this sort of feature?

Is there a better way to allow remote users to easily retrieve and send email via email clients like Thunderbird, et al? Another problem is my ISP blocks the standard SMTP port (so I have to do some port forwarding voodoo) and I'm not certain, but I suspect the ISP has also blocked ports for secure POP and SMTP.

Thanks!
Dan

[mmccarn]

I have not yet heard of an ISP that blocks pop3s & smtps but anything is possible!

SME does not do pop-before-smtp authentication as you describe, but does support authenticated smtps on port 465 from off-site (if you tell it to do so in server-manager).

If you find that your ISP is blocking 465 there are some posts here on how to use alternate ports for various services.

[bhamail]

That sounds like the better solution to me. Now I just need to burn an ISO and start tinkering. Thanks!

[CharlieBrady]

If you find that your ISP is blocking 465 there are some posts here on how to use alternate ports for various services.

All of those overcomplicate the matter. It is much easier to use port forwarding to make an existing service effectively run on multiple ports simultaneously.