[107442] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ingress SMTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Boyd)
Wed Sep 3 17:53:38 2008
From: Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:53:28 -0500
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On Sep 3, 2008, at 4:36 PM, Frank Bulk wrote:
> I would like to point my customers to port 587, but that kind of
> configuration is still in its infancy.
We're a small managed services provider, and we started doing
authenticated SMTP with TLS on port 587 six years ago. It's at least
in kindergarten :-)
Once we explain the advantages, our customers love it since their
email "just works" pretty much wherever they go.
As a former manager for a small resnet, blocking port 25 outbound is A
Good Thing. Cut abuse email down by a huge factor.
--Chris
