Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?

Fri Feb 25 07:30:01 UTC 2005

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 23:36 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
>
> The rest of us run mail services in the real world, where lots of users buy
> laptops, and then actually <gasp, shock> *use* the portability and thus often
> end up behind some other ISP's port-25 block.

Why not a VPN solution.  If you have mail servers that your users need,
chances are that you also have file servers, internal web servers.
calender servers, etc.  Should file/web/calender servers all open one
port or internal access and a second port for authenticated external
access?

-Jim P.