PHPMailer fails on port 25. Is using port 26 ok?

[walkerasindave]

Hi

I've recently found a problem with all my scripts that rely on phpmailer. 99% of the time they are getting a Timeout Error when connecting using fsockopen() on port 25 of the mail host:

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to mail.tmtg.org.uk:25 (Connection timed out) in ... etc.

The mail host/server is was working fine remotely from my email client and the webmail interface so I tried playing around to fix the problem.

After a while, just randomly I tried incrementing the port number to 26. To my surprise it worked perfectly and the email got delivered exactly as required.

Is it ok to use port 26?

If it isn't how can I stop port 25 failing?

[Administrator]

using port 26 would be wise move

I am not sure on which server you are hosted but our server had similar problem so I started using port 26 till someone could fix problem with port 25.

I never switched back to port 25 as the results with port 26 are superb

[walkerasindave]

Cool I'll stick with 26 then.

It does seem to be quite a bit faster than when port 25 was working

Thank you.