[78257] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (just me)
Fri Feb 25 17:26:19 2005
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:25:48 -0800 (PST)
From: just me <matt@snark.net>
To: Frank Louwers <frank@openminds.be>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050225162148.GG12804@openminds.be>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Frank Louwers wrote:
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.
What are you, stupid? The spammers have drone armies of machines
with completely compromised operating systems. What makes you think
that their mail credentials will be hard to obtain?
matt ghali
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