Subject: | localhost:587 is better default sendmail host/port |
Mail-Sendmail currently uses localhost:25 as the default port to try to send mail. This probably should be changed to localhost:587 since Sendmail on modern systems listens on localhost:587 for locally generated email. Thanks!
--- Sendmail.pm~ 2000-09-25 04:26:58.000000000 -0400
+++ Sendmail.pm 2005-08-22 14:57:25.768321000 -0400
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
'delay' => 1, # delay in seconds between retries
'tz' => '', # only to override automatic detection
- 'port' => 25, # change it if you always use a non-standard port
+ 'port' => 587, # change it if you always use a non-standard port
'debug' => 0 # prints stuff to STDERR
);