Re: Randy in Nevis

[John Peach <john-nanog () johnpeach com>]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:16:04 -0700
Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:

> On Sep 29, 2010, at 6:10 AM, John Peach wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:06:02 +0200
> > Bjørn Mork <bjorn () mork no> wrote:
> >
> > > John Peach <john-nanog () johnpeach com> writes:
> > >
> > > > It's common knowledge that 465 is smtps, whatever else IANA might
> > > > say.
> > >
> > > It's common knowledge that 465 *was* smtps.  A decade ago.  But it
> > > has never gone anywhere, and it is way overdue for an "obsolete"
> > > tag. Everyone actually caring about SMTP over SSL are using
> > > STARTTLS on port 25 and 587.  The faster we kill SMTPS the
> > > better.  Keeping it in current /etc/services and the like is only
> > > going to confuse people.
> >
> > You obviously don't use a Blackberry with an imap(s) server.....
> What does imap(s) have to do with 465/SMTP?

Too early in the morning and I was not advocating maintaining SMTPS.


-- 
John