Need syntax for SMTP Auth

[Newposter]

Running mail server, and port 25 is now blocked by my ISP. They use port 587 with authentication. So now I can't send or receive emails to my domains on my server. I have a guestbook script which sends me an email when an entry is made, and I need to script the authentication in; PERL 5.61 in Windows. Here is what I have, that doesn't work:

use Net::SMTP;

my $relay = "smtp.myISP.net";
my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new($relay);
$smtp->auth(userid, password)

|| die "Can't open mail connection: $!";

What is the proper syntax? Do I need to install a PERL module? How is that done in Windows? Net::SMTP has always worked til the port blocking.

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[rharsh]

I haven't used Net::SMTP, but somewhere in there you're going to have to tell your script which port to use. Maybe something like:

my $relay = "smtp.myISP.net[b]:587[/b]";

 

[Newposter]

Isn't that step taken care of by the mail server program? That's where I set it when I set up this server 5 years ago, and it worked all that time. I didn't have to script in the port for port 25.

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[Newposter]

Besides, it's the username and password that has to be included now in the script. The server requires that to be submitted for outgoing.

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[Newposter]

Bump

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[MikeLacey]

25 is the default port for mail, so that's why you don't have to specify it. If you want to use 587 you're going to have to tell it that.

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[Newposter]

Um...did you even read the post? I HAVE my mail server program set to use port 587, with authentication. But I have email scripts on my web sites for people to send me email, and for email confirmation of orders placed. So these are email clients. I need to rewrite the email script to use SMTP authentication with my username and password. The port is not the issue, it's getting a script that will pass the authentication info to my mail server.

Thanks for replying, but you didn't address the issue. Can anyone help?

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