Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?

["J.D. Falk" <jdfalk () cybernothing org>]

On 02/19/05, Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de> wrote: 

> * Sean Donelan:
>
> > 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
>
> Has AOL notified anyone in advance?  Quite a few provider-independent
> mail providers were caught by surprise.

        Is there a mailing list that will reach all/most of these
        provider-independent mail providers?

        (If so, then that's where we should be having this discussion
        asking why they don't support port 587 yet.)

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