Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?

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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> -----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
> 