[107591] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ingress SMTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugeniu Patrascu)
Sun Sep 7 17:51:21 2008
From: Eugeniu Patrascu <eugen@imacandi.net>
To: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
In-Reply-To: <48C44846.8050308@mtcc.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 00:51:15 +0300
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sep 8, 2008, at 12:31 AM, Michael Thomas wrote:
> Eugeniu Patrascu wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 3, 2008, at 8:08 PM, Winders, Timothy A wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Yes, setting up a 587 submit server internally would be best, but
>>> man power
>>> is at a premium and it hasn't happened.
>>>
>>
>> I don't know what SMTP server you're using, but on Postfix you just
>> need to uncomment one line in master.cf, do a reload and that's it.
>> it takes less than a minute to do it on server. YMMV.
> Would that it were so easy :) You also have the more daunting task
> of hooking up your auth/aaa infrastructure with your MTA's, and all
> of the care and feeding that entails.
>
IIRC the OP said that he was already doing AUTH on port 25, and this
was the basis for my email stating it's quite easy.
