[78236] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Louwers)
Fri Feb 25 11:49:06 2005
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:21:48 +0100
From: Frank Louwers <frank@openminds.be>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050225104759.A11227@torzimon.ca.int.kn>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:47:59AM -0500, Nils Ketelsen wrote:
>
> Now to my prophecy mode: Spammers will start using 587 to spam, which we
> then also all block outgoing, notice again that customers still want to
The trick is to config port 587 in such a way that it ONLY accepts
smtp-auth mail, not regular smtp.
That way, virii/spam junk won't be able to use that port.
Kind Regards,
Frank Louwers
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