Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user:
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 02:13:08PM +0100, Albert Dengg wrote: >> to my knowlege, port 587 is for _authenticated_ message transmission, >> e.g. from your own users, not for server<->server. >> > Actually, 587 us the submission port. It has nothing to do with > authentication. Basically, the RFCs are written such that port 25 is > supposed to be use for the exchange of messages among mail servers and > port 587 is the port for users to introduce new messages to the system. I wonder how often this is actually done in practice however. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
