[71163] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Charter blocking Port 25
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Thu Jun 10 10:28:46 2004
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:28:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
To: matthew zeier <mrz@velvet.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <CB98BA18-BA8A-11D8-A2AC-000393922004@velvet.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, matthew zeier wrote:
: But this is different - I'm not running a mail server -on- my Cox
: connection. I'm running one external to Cox but I can't connect to
: port 25 on it.
That's why port 587 was invented. It's the MSA (mail *submission* agent)
port, intended only for initial injection of mail into the SMTP delivery
network. Learn it, believe it, use it. 8-)
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>
