[67553] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SMTP authentication for broadband providers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lou Katz)
Wed Feb 11 21:39:14 2004
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:38:25 -0800
From: Lou Katz <lou@metron.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0402111509570.10498@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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?
Because, maybe, I don't think it is a good idea for someone else to CONTROL
any messages I might send. Who will control the controllers?
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