Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?

Frank Louwers frank at openminds.be
Fri Feb 25 16:21:48 UTC 2005


On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:47:59AM -0500, Nils Ketelsen wrote:
> 
 
> Now to my prophecy mode: Spammers will start using 587 to spam, which we
> then also all block outgoing, notice again that customers still want to

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.

Kind Regards,
Frank Louwers

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