Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?
Nils Ketelsen
nils.ketelsen at kuehne-nagel.com
Tue Mar 1 14:36:35 UTC 2005
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 03:25:39PM +0100, Frank Louwers wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:18:19AM -0500, Nils Ketelsen wrote:
> >
> > 2. Port 587 Mailservers only make sense, when other Providers block
> > port 25. My point is: If my ISP blocks any outgoing port, he is no longer
> > an ISP I will buy service from. Therefore I do not need a 587-Mailserver,
> > as I do not use any ISP with Port 25-Blocking for connecting my sites or
> > users.
>
> Here in Belgium, the two biggest end-user (broadband) ISPs block tcp/25.
> Are you going to tell your users: "sorry, you should have taken another
> another access isp, take one of the very few ones left that don't
> block"?
I am in the lucky situation, where I decide, which providers my users get.
Nils
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