* Marc Sherman:

> Why allow TLS on port 25 at all? There's not much security value in TLS 
> for random MTA-MTA traffic.

It prevents passive eavesdropping (by content-filtering transit ISPs,
for instance).  Some mail peers have also hard-wired our certificate
into their systems, without actually using SMTP submission.

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