On 25/09/2007, at 12:46 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr wrote: > David wrote: >> Oh, when I go to change my outgoing mail settings in Thunderbird >> and I >> choose SSL, it defaults to 465. I do, however, see equal >> references to >> 465 and 587 as viable SSL ports. I see chatter about TLS vs SSL, and >> STARTTLS being used for port 587, but it's semi-greek to me. >> Either way, >> port forwarding can hopefully handle whichever port ASSP doesn't >> bind to. > > As far as I understand it in layman's terms: 465 is for MTA to MTA > (server to server) , and 587 is for MUA to MTA (client to server) mail > submissions. > > I try to keep track of specifications as a reference as to why certain > settings should be a certain way - but Im a bit behind on my complete > reading of these texts - so my interpretation might be a bit off.
This sounds right from the little I've read on the subject Micheal. But I think you still need 465 for MUA to MTA if the MUA is an old version of Outlook. From the Postfix mailing list: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 10:22:57PM +0200, Frank Gruellich wrote: > > >> To provide our mail service to these networks we thought about doing >> some ugly VPN tricks, we thought about more ugly web mailers... but I >> would like the much simpler way to accept SMTP via SSL at 465 in the >> hope, that neither open servers nor infected boxes offer encrypted >> spam >> relay. >> > > 465 is the obsolete SSL wrapper mode supported by older Outlook > clients. > The standard submission service is port 587 with STARTTLS. > > >> So what's your experience, is this a port that is treated same >> as port 25 or is there in general a better chance for this? >> > > Use 587, but offer 465 to ancient clients can't to STARTTLS on 587. > > -- > Viktor ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
