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Re[2]: Report: STARTTLS painful in the wild
From: Andrew Diederich (andrewdied
gmail.com)
Date: Wed Oct 25 2006 - 12:11:41 CDT
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006, 3:50:36 PM, Steven wrote:
> Port 465 is non-standard (though don't tell M$). You should be using
> the standard mail submission (MSA) port (587) instead of the MTA port (25).
> We support 587, 465, and 25 here, but strongly encourage use of 587.
> We also REQUIRE STARTTLS on 25/587. Note that many ISPs (and hotels)
> block outgoing port 25, or severely mangle it as you have no doubt
> experienced now. As does some well-intentioned software firewalls.
So what do people do who want to send TLS/STARTTLS/SSL do in the real
world? The experience I've had is there are too many obstacles to be
successful with that, which is why I'm back at VPN.
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Best regards,
Andrew mailto:andrewdiedgmail.com
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