Alternate SMTP port for notifications
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 2:48 pm
Hi guys, we occasionally have an issue with our SMTP/SPAM server and have an issue that if it's after hours we cannot get notified about it because our SMTP/SPAM server is what is used to send notifications.
On our mail server we have our spam system taking the brunt of SMTP connections on port 25, once the email is checked it heads to the mail server on port 2500.
Every time we have had a problem the mail server itself is working, but the spam system has had an issue, so If I can send emails to port 2500 instead of port 25 we would still get the email, however if I sent it to an external mail server it can't get back in.
I have tried specifying the different port number on the smtp server address like 1.2.3.4:2500 but it doesn't work.
Does anybody have a workaround that might help in this situation ? The only idea I have come up with is a port redirection on the lan port of our router which will listen on port 25 and then redirect to port 2500 on the mail server, not really a good solution I don't think.....
Thanks
Paul
On our mail server we have our spam system taking the brunt of SMTP connections on port 25, once the email is checked it heads to the mail server on port 2500.
Every time we have had a problem the mail server itself is working, but the spam system has had an issue, so If I can send emails to port 2500 instead of port 25 we would still get the email, however if I sent it to an external mail server it can't get back in.
I have tried specifying the different port number on the smtp server address like 1.2.3.4:2500 but it doesn't work.
Does anybody have a workaround that might help in this situation ? The only idea I have come up with is a port redirection on the lan port of our router which will listen on port 25 and then redirect to port 2500 on the mail server, not really a good solution I don't think.....
Thanks
Paul