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Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Wed Feb 16 01:53:35 2005

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:53:20 -0800
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20050215223059.073cccb0@mail.amaranth.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Daniel Senie wrote:

> Is the proper configuration or proper examples the responsibility of 
> sendmail developers, those packaging sendmail with systems, or those who 
> deploy the software?

The correct answer is "those who deploy the software," regardless of whether 
it's a mail server, firewall, IP router,* or any other type of software.


*I had to say that; this *is* NANOG.


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