Re: [IMail Forum] problem with using port 587 on Imail v8.2

[Geza Levai]

Hey guys,

Thank you for your quick responses as well.

Let me response to all 3 emails in one message here:

about "relaying for anyone":
The reason why I took the liberty to enable this switch was that the spam and email filtering is done by Postini for us.
(Postini is our front end SMTP server for receiving messages from the outside world) and I have port 25 on the firewall limited to traffic only from the postini email servers.

It is true, that port 587 is now capable of receiving  SMTP requests from anyone, but I figured, that spammers do not use that port for spamming or dictionary or DOS attacks. Since I have SMTP auth enabled on the email server I figured, that only those emails will get in, that were authenticated by username and password on port 587.

What do you think?

Geza
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