On 7 July 2014 at 19:13, Lyndon Nerenberg <[email protected]>wrote: > On Jul 7, 2014, at 7:11 PM, David Levine <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We won't find standards support for it: 465 for SMTPS was >> revoked by IANA (in 1998!) and reassigned to another service. >> But as long as AT&T (I know), Verizon (I think), and whoever >> else require it, we're stuck with it. > > No we're not. Nor should we support it. The standards-based > alternatives are available and should me used. >
The link is rather old, last post is 12/31/2009, so I don't know if AT&T is still supporting port 465 or not. I can tell you that I have postfix configured (successfully) using port 487. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r23150259-Postfix-or-Sendmail-and-SMTP-auth-with-ATT nmh delivers locally, and then postfix connects to AT&T. jerry // Jerry Heyman | We are all born ignorant, but // Amigan Forever :-) | one must work hard to remain stupid \\ // heymanj at acm dot org | -- Benjamin Franklin \X/ http://www.hobbeshollow.com| _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
