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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: SMTP authentication for broadband providers
In article <[email protected]>, Lou Katz <[email protected]> wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 03:13:30PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote: >> >> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 [email protected] wrote: >> > On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:15:20 PST, Dave Crocker said: >> > > what about port 25 blocking that is now done by many access providers? >> > > this makes it impossible for mobile users, coming from those providers, >> > > to access your server and do the auth. >> > >> > Port 587. >> > >> >> So is it time for ISPs to start blocking port 587 too? >> >> If the complaints are going back to the IP address anwyay, why shouldn't >> an ISP force it subscribers to go through the ISPs mail servers so it can >> control any messages sent by its subscribers? > > >Because, maybe, I don't think it is a good idea for someone else to CONTROL >any messages I might send. Who will control the controllers? As if they don't yet CONTROL the messages you receive ? Where, exactly, is your POP3/IMAP mailbox located ? Ah, you run your own mailserver for your own domain. So, you can use the submission port on your own mailserver, right ? Mike.
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