[78265] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Fri Feb 25 20:00:53 2005
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:00:10 -0800
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0502251511150.29345@pants.snark.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 02/25/05, just me <matt@snark.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Edward B. Dreger wrote:
>
> Internal users: With AUTH - correlate message with authenticated user,
> then forbid mail transmission for them only. I'd rather do that than
> slog through RADIUS logs. But, hey, maybe if I had more free time...
>
> Increasing the detail of an audit trail doesnt mean anyone will
> automatically use the information in an effective manner.
>
> Without auth, most ISPs could correlate abuse behavior between MTA
> logs and RADIUS logs, if they cared. Most don't. SMTP AUTH won't
> change that.
I don't get it, Matt. Are you trying to tell us that because
some ISP's don't care, the ISP's who /do/ care /shouldn't/ move
their users to doing mail submissions on port 587?
--
J.D. Falk uncertainty is only a virtue
<jdfalk@cybernothing.org> when you don't know the answer yet
