On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 01:02:21AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/20/03 
>    at 11:18 AM, Brian Candler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> >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.
> 
> Beg your pardon? Hardly 'obsolete'!

It's officially obsolete. In fact, port 465 has been reassigned for a
different function. See:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers

urd             465/tcp    URL Rendesvous Directory for SSM
igmpv3lite      465/udp    IGMP over UDP for SSM

> ...... 465 is the port for SSL/TLS *secure login* and client-server
> connection, i.e. userid and passwd not 'en clair'..... etc.  Nothing to do
> with server-to-server relaying AFAIK....

SMTP is SMTP, and in all cases is "client" to "server". A "mail server" is
acting as a client when it is sending mail to another mail machine via SMTP.

Regards,

Brian.


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