[78278] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert L Mathews)
Sat Feb 26 17:24:28 2005
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:24:00 -0800
From: Robert L Mathews <lists@tigertech.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <g3ll9dzigc.fsf@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Paul Vixie wrote:
> well, in sbc-dsl-land, port 25 and port 587 are blocked, but port 26 gets
> through. it seems bizarre that port 587 would ever be blocked
I suspect that was some kind of temporary aberration. SBC started
blocking port 25 in the last two months, and during that time I've
helped at least a dozen of our customers using SBC DSL switch their mail
program settings from port 25 to port 587, with no trouble -- it worked
in every case.
I bet it works if you try it again now (as you say, blocking port 587
makes no sense).
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Robert L Mathews
