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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Lazy network operators
>>>>> "Iljitsch" == Iljitsch van Beijnum <[email protected]> writes: Iljitsch> I understand your frustration, but the approach of blocking Iljitsch> port 25 isn't the right one. As a generalization this is inevitably false - there are networks where blocking port 25 is absolutely the right approach, and networks where it is not. Iljitsch> It may be convenient for you, but there are plenty of Iljitsch> people who have good reasons for using other SMTP servers Iljitsch> than their access provider's ones. For these people there is port 587. Using port 25 for smarthosting needs to die (arguably it is already dead, it just hasn't stopped moving yet). Port 25 is for sending mail to the recipient's MX host. Port 587 is for sending mail to the sender's smarthost. The policy requirements and abuse characteristics of the two types of services are sufficiently different that trying to treat them as the same, even though they happen to be using the same underlying protocol, is just going to cause pain. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com
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