Hi,

> Brian Candler 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.
>
Michael Leone said:
> Unless your clients are MS Outlook Express - it still uses port 465,
AFAIK.
>
> > Secure SMTP is done over port 25 using the 'STARTTLS' ESMTP extension.
>
> For most all other clients, yes.

Yikes, now that seems even more complicated!

Does this mean that I need to have it setup on both ports (in order to
support a wide variety of clients)? In outlook express there is an ability
to change the port number. When does outlook express use port 465? When you
click the "Logon using secure password authentication" check box?

Ok, now I really need some help. How can I set it up so that authenticated
relaying requires SSL while normal inbound smtp/esmtp connections do not?
Obviously this has been done before by someone? It must be really simple
(one hopes).

All the best,

Peter - novice courier and system adim boldly going where many others have
tread before willingly piling more and more rocks into the admin backpack
while assulting the two towers seemingly forever on the quest for knowledge
and the easiest way to configure these systems... ;--)



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