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On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Brad Knowles wrote: > > In practice if your remote users don't use the submit port on your servers > > it gives rise to all kinds of different issues involving you trying to > > support the outbound filtering AOL is doing on your customers sending from > > non AOL domains. > > That doesn't change the fact that plenty of MUAs do not properly > handle alternative ports. I've done a look-see around my network and acquaintances a while ago, and among them were quite a few mailers, all of which supported not only alternate ports, but also SMTP AUTH. MSA support is far more available than this classic FUD. If a MUA still doesn't support setting the port to 587 then, at this point, it should be declared broken, to wit: > You can't just set a hard and fast rule (like "let them eat cake"), > and automatically expect all MUAs to kow-tow overnight. It's been nearly six years (RFC2476 was December 1998). Is that long enough for you yet? (Heck, if the change-for-standards-at-a-snail's-pace Pacific Northwestern quasi-monopoly could get off their asses to allow alternate ports, anyone should be able to offer it by now.) -- -- Todd Vierling <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
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