[130153] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Randy in Nevis
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Peach)
Wed Sep 29 09:11:03 2010
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:10:55 -0400
From: John Peach <john-nanog@johnpeach.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <87mxr08zt1.fsf@nemi.mork.no>
Reply-To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:06:02 +0200
Bj=C3=B8rn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> wrote:
> John Peach <john-nanog@johnpeach.com> writes:
>=20
> > It's common knowledge that 465 is smtps, whatever else IANA might
> > say.
>=20
> It's common knowledge that 465 *was* smtps. A decade ago. But it has
> never gone anywhere, and it is way overdue for an "obsolete" tag.
> Everyone actually caring about SMTP over SSL are using STARTTLS on
> port 25 and 587. The faster we kill SMTPS the better. Keeping it in
> current /etc/services and the like is only going to confuse people.
You obviously don't use a Blackberry with an imap(s) server.....
--=20
John
