Port 587 vs. 25 [was: DNS Hijacking by Cox]

Mikael Abrahamsson swmike at swm.pp.se
Mon Jul 23 09:49:19 UTC 2007


On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Jeroen Wunnink wrote:

> It's a lot more trouble for hosting providers that provide customers with 
> webhosting and E-mail services.

Why? What stops you from migrating them to TCP/587? I'd imagine direct 
TCP/25 access to your servers would be spotty at best, anyway. Where I'm 
at, there are more ISPs blocking TCP/25 to anything but their own email 
servers, that those who do not block.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se



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