[78247] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew2@one.net)
Fri Feb 25 12:46:41 2005
From: <andrew2@one.net>
To: "'Joe Maimon'" <jmaimon@ttec.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:45:46 -0500
In-Reply-To: <421F53FF.1010809@ttec.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Joe Maimon wrote:
> We need 587 because trusted authentication in SMTP does not
> transit with the message. So there is no way to require
> authenticated email only from all systems that would be worth
> a damn.
Local delivery only unless authenticated isn't worth a damn? Is this
really that difficult??
Andrew
