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Re: FW: The worst abuse e-mail ever, sverige.net

  • From: Joe Provo
  • Date: Tue Sep 21 17:45:56 2004 
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 01:29:44PM -0400, Daniel Golding wrote:
[snip]
> Another choice is to filter port 25. Filtering port 25 has its own 
> costs - some users are offended/bothered by this, since they can't 
> use their own corporate mail servers, in some cases.
[snip]

SUBMIT, SASL, etc.   This is a solved problem; if MS "Lookout! Virus
Express!" supports it, your know it isn't rocket science. 

SMTP 25 is for inter-server traffic.  There is absolutely no reason
for end-user pseudo-MTAs to use it.  Some networks will enforce it.
Expect that and move on.


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