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unable to use 4 digits to send mail

6 replies · 2,671 views · Started 13 June 2007

jbottcher 13 Jun 2007, 21:07

Hi,

I'm trying to configure outgoing server mail to send mail but I can not configure outgoing port to use 4 digits. My email server uses 1025 smtp port.

I read recently some information about limitation of E61 to use 4 digits configuration port.

Someone can confirm that? Any suggestions ?

Regards

desertrat 13 Jun 2007, 22:30

jbottcher wrote:I read recently some information about limitation of E61 to use 4 digits configuration port.

Someone can confirm that? Any suggestions ?

Yes it's another dumb bug/limitation. Since I run my own mailserver I set it to use a 3 digit port number.

LasseFJ 28 Jun 2007, 11:01

I just bought a Nokia N73 ME and I've got the same problem too, i was just wondering if anyone has found a solution to the problem?

desertrat 28 Jun 2007, 21:00

LasseFJ wrote:I just bought a Nokia N73 ME and I've got the same problem too, i was just wondering if anyone has found a solution to the problem?
There are no solutions except complain to Nokia.

desertrat 17 Sep 2007, 15:03

LasseFJ wrote:There has to be a solution??
As I have said the only solution is for Nokia to fix it. I can't understand wtf they limit it to 3-digit port numbers, everyone knows that there are ~256^2 possible ports, which works out to ~65000 ports. In both cases storing a 3-digit decimal number or a 5-digit decimal in binary only uses 2 bytes, so Nokia aren't saving any memory by making such an asinine restriction.

The workarounds are:

1) as mentioned before, run your own mailserver

2) use an ssh tunnel to act as a proxy for your mailserver