Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?
Hannigan, Martin
hannigan at verisign.com
Sat Feb 26 09:22:24 UTC 2005
Hi Folks,
It's time to take this thread to SPAM-L or
some other spam oriented list.
Thanks in advance,
-M<
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Martin Hannigan (c) 617-388-2663
VeriSign, Inc. (w) 703-948-7018
Network Engineer IV Operations & Infrastructure
hannigan at verisign.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> just me
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 5:26 PM
> To: Frank Louwers
> Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?
>
>
>
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Frank Louwers wrote:
>
> The trick is to config port 587 in such a way that it ONLY accepts
> smtp-auth mail, not regular smtp.
>
> That way, virii/spam junk won't be able to use that port.
>
> What are you, stupid? The spammers have drone armies of machines
> with completely compromised operating systems. What makes you think
> that their mail credentials will be hard to obtain?
>
> matt ghali
>
> --matt at snark.net------------------------------------------<darwin><
> The only thing necessary for the triumph
> of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
>
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