On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 15:34 +0000, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 11:02 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 16:23 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 07:51 +1300, Russell Fulton wrote:
> > > > This will not work if your ISP blocks SMTP from general users.
> > > 
> > > The solution in that case is to use MSA -- which is basically just
> > > SMTP
> > > on port 587. See RFC2476.
> > 
> > Hmmm, I hadn't heard of that one. I'll check it out. Of course maybe the
> > common clients don't support it (we're not an Evo-only universe :-)
> 
> The vast majority of clients support that.
> However it mandates STARTTLS and AUTH which pretty much knocks out many
> versions of Outlook (which assumes you want to do SMTPS rather than
> STARTTLS if you are using a port it doesn't have hard-wired in).

Sounds like a good reason to prohibit Outlook on our net :-)

poc

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