[107592] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ingress SMTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Winders, Timothy A)
Sun Sep 7 17:54:37 2008
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:54:28 -0500
From: "Winders, Timothy A" <twinders@southplainscollege.edu>
To: Eugeniu Patrascu <eugen@imacandi.net>,
Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
In-Reply-To: <2B638B5A-CF6B-4018-B8FB-E96F16A7B039@imacandi.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 9/7/08 4:51 PM, "Eugeniu Patrascu" <eugen@imacandi.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Correct on all accounts. I got 587 up and running last week.
Tim Winders | Associate Dean of Information Technology | South Plains
College
