Esteemed monks,

I have an email client written in Perl/Tk which is embedded in a contact management application. When users configure email they dont necessarilly go to the ISP's documentation and follow the configuration information and they dont know that their ISP has blocked port 25 for spam prevention. Many of them have fully fledged hosted domains outside and have SMTP servers listening on ports 857 or 587. But they aren't sure what to do.

So they put nothing in the box. Then they wonder why email doesn't get sent.

I could have net::SMTP try to connect on port 25 if their is nothing supplied, to test for connectivity. Is there a simpler way?

jdotronto

In reply to Checking SMTP ports. by jdtoronto

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