> On 28 Jul 2015, at 11:11, Dahlberg, David <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> ACH gives SMTPS configuration examples only for exim, but not for
> Postfix.
I’ll see what I can do to improve that.


> If it could be proved that there are indeed no MTAs that
> support 465, but no 25/STARTTLS, I would recommend removing 465 from
> the exim config.
465/tcp is an _inofficial_ port used for SMTP with implicit TLS rather than 
STARTTLS. While that has benefits it’s mostly ignored in my experience. I 
haven’t seen any default configs where that is still enabled, if configured at 
all but commented out.


Azet and me talked about this recently and this is about the conclusion we came 
to. Azet, please correct me should I have made a mistake in concluding.

Forcing STARTTLS over 25 for MTAs is the only way we can improve this situation 
in the short term. That requires the common large Email providers to require it 
by a certain date. Unless we see companies like Google/Gmail, GMX, United 
Internet (Web.de), Yahoo!, Microsoft Live Email (Hotmail), Apple (iCloud) and 
Facebook require it, I don’t have any hope to raise that to a global 
requirement since everyone must play with them.

Best regards
Pepi

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