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Re: ingress SMTP

  • From: Alec Berry
  • Date: Wed Sep 03 13:48:52 2008

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Winders, Timothy A wrote:

> We have not setup a port 587 smtp submit server.  Our smtp servers run only
> on port 25.

Sorry to be harsh, but that's just not the "right way to do things"
these days. At the very least, you can run stunnel to allow incoming
mail submission on port 465 (SMTP + SSL).

> So, for us, having ISPs block port 25 is a problem.

Read: "for us, running a mail server is a problem"

...
alec

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