[74310] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FW: The worst abuse e-mail ever, sverige.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Provo)
Tue Sep 21 17:43:50 2004
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 17:33:39 -0400
From: Joe Provo <nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net>
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
Reply-To: nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net
In-Reply-To: <BD75DD48.40A0%dgolding@burtongroup.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 01:29:44PM -0400, Daniel Golding wrote:
[snip]
> Another choice is to filter port 25. Filtering port 25 has its own
> costs - some users are offended/bothered by this, since they can't
> use their own corporate mail servers, in some cases.
[snip]
SUBMIT, SASL, etc. This is a solved problem; if MS "Lookout! Virus
Express!" supports it, your know it isn't rocket science.
SMTP 25 is for inter-server traffic. There is absolutely no reason
for end-user pseudo-MTAs to use it. Some networks will enforce it.
Expect that and move on.
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