setting smtp to listen on multiple ports?

[dragon]

is it possible to set smtp on a linux webserver to listen on muliple ports?

although most people can connect to smtp fine i am having a problem with wanado blocking port 25 to anything but their own smtp server

i would like people on wanadoo to be able to access smtp like everyone else and dont mind opening up another port

however i dont want to have to change the port from 25 becuase that works for the majority of people.

beacuse at this moment people on wanadoo cant send email from their own domains simply becuase this doesnt use wandoos smtp server

To run on multiple ports you would probably need to run multiple copies. I have no idea if you can do this on Linux, it probably depends on the software you are using. One question, how would the remote sender know to use a port other than 25 ?

[dragon]

Originally Posted by Paul M

To run on multiple ports you would probably need to run multiple copies. I have no idea if you can do this on Linux, it probably depends on the software you are using. One question, how would the remote sender know to use a port other than 25 ?

yeah that would be a problem

i was wandering if i could have it listening on port 25 and another port

so that it would still get data from the remote sender on 25 and most users could send on 25

but then it was also listening on anohter port which i could tell the person on wanadoo..

[dragon]

hmm got a portfwd deamon thats working nicely only problem now is to get it to auto load on a server restart

i need to run portfwd -c pf.conf on server startup how would i do this?

[MetaWraith]

Originally Posted by dragon

hmm got a portfwd deamon thats working nicely only problem now is to get it to auto load on a server restart

i need to run portfwd -c pf.conf on server startup how would i do this?

HINT
checkout the ".rc" directories eg .rc2