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Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:49:48 -0500 (EST)
Yet another reason for supporting port 587 on your servers for remote authenticated mail submission from your users. If you don't support port 587, and use SPF, it may break when AOL or other providers re-direct port 25. http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/56437
with many questions related to this topic." The company was advising AOL customers affected to switch to message submission port 587, the signals from which were not being filtered by AOL, the spokesman said. This item of advice on switching coincides with that given by AOL itself. Not all mail providers accept messages from this port, however; and not every mail client allows users to freely select their SMTP port.
Current thread:
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?, (continued)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Sean Donelan (Feb 15)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Thor Lancelot Simon (Feb 15)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Owen DeLong (Feb 16)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Daniel Senie (Feb 16)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Sean Donelan (Feb 15)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Steve Sobol (Feb 15)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Owen DeLong (Feb 16)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Joe Maimon (Feb 16)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Chip Mefford (Feb 16)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Daniel Senie (Feb 15)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Steve Sobol (Feb 15)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Sean Donelan (Feb 16)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Florian Weimer (Feb 19)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? J.D. Falk (Feb 19)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Sean Donelan (Feb 19)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Florian Weimer (Feb 19)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Florian Weimer (Feb 24)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 24)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Nils Ketelsen (Feb 24)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 24)
- RE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? andrew2 (Feb 24)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Joe Maimon (Feb 24)