"Brett Randall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Running on anything other than port 25 is pretty silly considering that
> all applications and all mail relays attempt to deliver to port 25 on
> every mail server in the world...Internally, you could do it, but why?
There are several reasons why this is done, usually amounting to "security
through obscurity". Sometimes an SMTP server on a non-standard port is run
as an open relay, so remote customers can forward outgoing mail through it.
Sometimes spam checking, size limits, or other policies are waived for an
odd-port SMTP server.
Len.
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Why is modularity ``wholly unreasonable''?
-- Dan Bernstein
