[67534] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SMTP authentication for broadband providers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Yardley)
Wed Feb 11 15:20:49 2004
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 12:19:01 -0800
From: Will Yardley <william+nanog@hq.dreamhost.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0402111509570.10498@clifden.donelan.com>
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On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 03:13:30PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:15:20 PST, Dave Crocker said:
> > > what about port 25 blocking that is now done by many access providers?
> > > this makes it impossible for mobile users, coming from those providers,
> > > to access your server and do the auth.
> > Port 587.
> So is it time for ISPs to start blocking port 587 too?
> If the complaints are going back to the IP address anwyay, why shouldn't
> an ISP force it subscribers to go through the ISPs mail servers so it can
> control any messages sent by its subscribers?
My understanding is that in most cases, providers are blocking port 25
outbound to prevent direct to MX spamming from their customers' machines
- not to prevent customers from sending mail through other providers'
mail servers. Unless they're specifically trying to force people to use
their mail servers (which I don't think is usually the case), they don't
need to block port 587.
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