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Re: Port 587 vs. 25 [was: DNS Hijacking by Cox]

  • From: Mikael Abrahamsson
  • Date: Mon Jul 23 05:17:02 2007


On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:


They can, but they do not. AFAIK, not a single ISP redirects port 587 to their own servers.

I work for an ISP that has totally blocked TCP/25 for all use. We require all users to use 587 (with authentication when connecting to our own mail system). We have substantially over 1M broadband users in 10-15 european countries (I don't know the exact number).


This took planning, lots of information and HOWTOs to users, and some helpdesk backing to get into place, but it's done, and it works. It was less painful that we dreaded.

Unfortunately we don't have internet operations in native english speaking country, so this will be in whatever it might autodetect your language to.

http://www.tele2mail.com/

As you can see, there are configuration manuals for all major email clients, for instance outlook:

http://www.tele2mail.com/manual/outlook/

So my recommendation is for other ISPs to do the same thing. Yes, I know IP providers should only move IP packets and don't care about the contents, but... well... you know.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: [email protected]