On Sun, 2014-06-08 at 10:50 -0500, Al Iverson via dmarc-discuss wrote: > > > Again, closing relays carried an entirely adequate alternative via port > > 587 for authorized users. No such equivalence is available when DMARC > > breaks mailing list use. > > Not at first it didn't -- it looks like port 587 submission was > specified in RFC 2476 which was December 1998. The relay wars were > underway by then and it took some time to garner acceptance and > adoption.
I was going to point out that MSA on port 587 is an almost orthogonal issue — that mostly deals with local networks which block or hijack port 25 and thus prevent people from accessing their home SMTP servers. SMTP authentication is possible on port 25 too... although actually it looks like RFC2554 didn't define that until *later*, in March 1999. -- dwmw2
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