Remote User's SMTP relay authorization

[Kendrick Vargas]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Phil Brutsche wrote:

> Kendrick Vargas wrote:
>
> > The only problem you might have with "on the road" is that ISP's tend
> > to block outbound port 25 access, and rightly so, to avoid
> > worm/virus/spam propagation. I got around that by setting up an
> > alternate SMTP port which is different from the default of 25 (like
> > 1025, or 2025, etc..) which ONLY does SMTP AUTH relay.
>
> RFC 2476 defines port 587 as a message submission port for such occasions.

It wouldn't surprise me if some "in the know" net admins would block this
too simply cuz it's in an RFC. Therefore, I still like my port better :-)
Besides, something like 2525 will be easier to remember than 587.
			-peace

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