Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?
J.D. Falk
jdfalk at cybernothing.org
Sat Feb 26 01:00:10 UTC 2005
On 02/25/05, just me <matt at snark.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Edward B. Dreger wrote:
>
> Internal users: With AUTH - correlate message with authenticated user,
> then forbid mail transmission for them only. I'd rather do that than
> slog through RADIUS logs. But, hey, maybe if I had more free time...
>
> Increasing the detail of an audit trail doesnt mean anyone will
> automatically use the information in an effective manner.
>
> Without auth, most ISPs could correlate abuse behavior between MTA
> logs and RADIUS logs, if they cared. Most don't. SMTP AUTH won't
> change that.
I don't get it, Matt. Are you trying to tell us that because
some ISP's don't care, the ISP's who /do/ care /shouldn't/ move
their users to doing mail submissions on port 587?
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J.D. Falk uncertainty is only a virtue
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