[Evolution] Bug#432584: evolution: Cannot send via SMTP server on port != 25

[Fabian Greffrath]

severity 432584 important
thanks

I believe this is an important bug, since it implies two major 
drawbacks to the user:

(1) The UI does not provide an option to specify the SMTP port which 
is to be used. It can be set via 'smtp.xxx.yyy:port', sure, but this 
isn't documented anyhere! I think there should be either (a) a field 
next to the server adress where you can specify the port -- and which 
is defaulted to 25 -- or there should be (b) an example or some other 
kind of hint that explains to me what I am supposed to type into the 
address field.

A nice example for this "hint" is in the cookies dialog of current 
epiphany-browser where it tells me what "only from sites you visit" 
means. A small text line telling me "To specify a different port than 
25 for SMTP, please use the following syntax: 
smtp.mailserver.com:port" or similar would help a lot!

(2) Once I've got this far and found out how to specify the SMTP port, 
Evolution omits it and still sends over port 25 if it is available. 
WTF?! I mean, my service provider begs me to use a different port than 
25, I manage to change the port and finally Evolution decides to use 
the default port, because it is still available. What does Evolution 
think it is to override my settings? FAIL! ;)

Please change the order to first use the port I specified and then 
fall back to the default port 25 only if it failed.


Cheers,
Fabian

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Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath

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