On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:10:50AM -0800, Peter William Lount wrote:
> I've learned that port 465 is reserved/utilized for secure SMTP. Does this
> also apply to ESMTP? I'm guessing so.
> 
> >From FreeBSD's /etc/services
> smtp             25/tcp    mail         #Simple Mail Transfer
> smtp             25/udp    mail         #Simple Mail Transfer
> smtps           465/tcp    #smtp protocol over TLS/SSL (was ssmtp)
> smtps           465/udp    #smtp protocol over TLS/SSL (was ssmtp)

It's an obsolete assignment, ignore it.

Secure SMTP is done over port 25 using the 'STARTTLS' ESMTP extension.

Regards,

Brian.


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