On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:26:32 +0100 (BST), Philip Hazel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Marc Sherman wrote: >> I think Marc is referring to ISPs who require AUTH over ssmtp for their >> customers to submit mail. The customer could change to a different ISP, but >> I'd imagine that changing MTAs is often easier.
I am actually referring to a trade fair network that has Ports TCP/25 and TCP/587 blocked, but allows TCP/465, so ssmtp is the only way to connect to people's external smarthosts. One could actually VPN out to connect to one's own smarthost, but why doing so if ssmtp would work? >Any ISP that *requires* their customers to use an obsolete protocol that >was *never* a standard deserves to lost custom. ... and that trade fair network is the only one available at that trade fair at a remotely decent price. The fair is over by now, and the problem was IIRC solved by replacing exim with postfix, but this was a good opportunity for the postfix evangelists to cry "exim sucks" once more, and I doubt that the box in question will convert back to exim any time soon, so exim's inability to use ssmtp has made exim lose one more installation to postfix. >And no doubt clients in due course will stop supporting ssmtp. Or am I >indulging in wishful thinking here? You are. Microsoft is still a firm believer in ssmtp. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
