On 02/Dec/10 02:40, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Perhaps some historical context will clear this up.
> 
> SMTP over SSL on port 465 was intended to be nothing more than
> SSL-ified port 25, and identically configured.

That port number is not in any IETF's RFC, AFAIK.

> MSA on port 587's purpose was to simplify the dual role of the same
> server both handling incoming mail, and acting as a smarthost for
> authorized clients. The idea behind port 587 is not to futz around
> with maintaining authorized RELAYCLIENT ranges for clients with
> relaying privileged. Drop all relaying privileged for port 25, that's
> your incoming mail, and have your clients use port 587, which simply
> requires authentication, and does not have to be configured with
> RELAYCLIENT ranges. Anything that goes to port 587 will require
> authentication, end of story.

Yup, it'd be handy to have some means to check migration has actually
been completed, i.e. no clients are logging-in on port 25 any more...

JM2C

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