[69538] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lazy network operators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Wed Apr 14 05:52:13 2004
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From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 09:50:38 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <cistron.407D01BB.90708@he.iki.fi>,
Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi> wrote:
>Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>
>>That was solved 6 years ago. You let them use port 587 instead of 25.
>>http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2476.html
>
>How many MUAs default to port 587?
The one I use daily does.
>How many even know about 587 and give
>it as an option other than fill-in-the-blank?
Setting up authenticated SMTP in most MUAs is an order of a magnitude
more complicated than changing port 25 to 587 anyway.
>...back to the computer literacy requirement again...
>How many support calls you get by requiring 587 instead of 25?
I don't know, but we get a lot of support calls about spam
and viruses, so if we can cut back on those ..
But the subject is still spot-on: not moving customers to port
587 for mail submission because it would be "too hard" is
laziness on the part of the ISP.
Mike.
