sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

[pinkenburg <pinkenburg AT bnl.gov>]

Hi folks,

about a month ago sdcc send a notification that they have to block the 
ports of their email server from outside connections. When I forwarded 
that announcement I wrote that there won't be changes on our side since 
we all go through ssh tunnels anyway. They made good on that promise 
yesterday and it turns out that my statement wasn't 100% accurate.

It was still possible to send emails without going through an ssh tunnel 
(and if you are like me and only update long forgotten settings when 
being forced to, are still using the direct connection - port 465 of 
rcf.rhic.bnl.gov). That was changed yesterday and now we need to go 
through an ssh tunnel here as well (just like what we had to do for the 
reading since "forever").

Sdcc provided somewhat complicated instructions how to change that:
https://www.sdcc.bnl.gov/services/email-services/email-client-configuration-use-sdcc-mail-servers

The short less intrusive version (which works for me) is adding an ssh 
tunnel to my setup

ssh -L 1465:mail.rhic.bnl.gov:465  ssh.sdcc.bnl.gov

and then changing my outgoing smtp server to

Server Name: localhost
Port: 1465

Chris

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Christopher H. Pinkenburg       ;    pinkenburg AT bnl.gov
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