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RE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan () verisign com>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 04:22:24 -0500
Hi Folks, It's time to take this thread to SPAM-L or some other spam oriented list. Thanks in advance, -M< -- Martin Hannigan (c) 617-388-2663 VeriSign, Inc. (w) 703-948-7018 Network Engineer IV Operations & Infrastructure hannigan () verisign com
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of just me Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 5:26 PM To: Frank Louwers Cc: nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Frank Louwers wrote: The trick is to config port 587 in such a way that it ONLY accepts smtp-auth mail, not regular smtp. That way, virii/spam junk won't be able to use that port. What are you, stupid? The spammers have drone armies of machines with completely compromised operating systems. What makes you think that their mail credentials will be hard to obtain? matt ghali --matt () snark net------------------------------------------<darwin>< The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
Current thread:
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?, (continued)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Paul Vixie (Feb 24)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Andrew - Supernews (Feb 24)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Robert L Mathews (Feb 26)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Jim Popovitch (Feb 26)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Mikael Abrahamsson (Feb 26)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Paul Vixie (Feb 24)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Joe Maimon (Feb 25)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? JP Velders (Feb 26)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Adrian Chadd (Feb 15)
- Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? Bob Martin (Feb 15)