Use port 25 with starttls instead of 587 for mailing by default #333
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| mail_host='', | ||
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weird defaults (port 587 without starttls makes no sense) sure, but why change them? are you using it somewhere where you can't configure it?
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yes, the scripts that mail in vsc-filesystems-quota only use the mail hostname from vsc-config. I could change it to be tuple in vsc-config (hostname, port). But that is a bit more work and needs changes on multiple places.
In my opinion, use port 25 as the default makes more sense? I also don't really see good reason to use 587 as long as you use starttls?
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well, port 25 is not supposed to be used for client-mailserver, only mailserver-mailserver.
it's best if we can somehow configue it properly (even enabling/disabling starttls)
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@wpoely86 perhaps allow the smtp option to indicate a filename with the mailconfig if it starts with a /?
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Actually upon better reading the code, we could just provide server:25 and that will also work.
But I would suggest that we flip on starttls by default?
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Alternatively we can add a default configuration file and gracefully handle it if it's not present?
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Is 25 only server-server? Didn't know that. I thought the only difference was that 587 enforces TLS.
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@itkovian Would this be okay for you?
For us port 587 is not open by default and we rely on 25 with
STARTTLS.