sendmail times out or fails to connect to remote server

[wblock@]

In the few times I've had to deal with this, the ISP's mailserver was inside the network and port 25 to it was open. Or they might require encryption and use a different port, like TLS on port 465.

 

[stevevg]

Using a smart host doesn't help if your ISP is bocking all traffic on port 25 as

sendmail

uses that port also to connect to a smart host.

So would this solution work?
http://lifehacker.com/111166/how-to-use-gmail-as-your-smtp-server

If so, would I just do it straight through mail, shortcutting around sendmail?

 

[wblock@]

Should be able to do that with sendmail(8). Otherwise, you'd have to run some type of MUA on your system.

 

[saulobrito]

iI got same issues in oceandigital, they are firewalling one level above my machine blocking 25 output.