[67393] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: question on ptr rr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Senie)
Mon Feb 9 12:23:18 2004
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 11:49:33 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
In-Reply-To: <87r7x45q2q.fsf@valhalla.seastrom.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 08:40 AM 2/9/2004, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
>Michael.Dillon@radianz.com writes:
>
> > We need to add email sending capability to both POP
> > and IMAP so that eventually we can all block port 25
> > entirely from broadband/dialup edges.
>
>What's wrong with port 587 (rfc 2476 sec. 3.1) and requiring SMTP AUTH
>(rfc 2554), as people have widely deployed today? The problem is
>education; the technology is already widely available and deployed.
It'd be really nice is mail client programs had an easy way for users to
configure these settings. We have to walk our clients through the advanced
settings in Outlook Express, Eudora, and other programs often.
