Most MTAs don't come preconfigured with port 587 either. It is amazing how many people/organizations go with the "if it isn't broke, don't fix it" mentality, even though it clearly needs to be revised and something new needs to be done/supported. Email needs to be revamped on a larger scale than just adding standards.
Sean Donelan wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Jeroen Wunnink wrote: >> 1. Customers remember it more easily >> 2. Some ISP's also block 587 (hence 'SMTP ports' rather then 'SMTP >> port' in my previous comment ;-) > > Those same clueless ISPs will probably block 2525 someday too, > clueless expands to fill any void. And using non-standard things like > 2525 only lead to more confusion for customers later when they try > someone else's non-standard choice, e.g. port 26 or 24 or 5252 and > wonder why those don't work. > > On the other hand, why don't modern mail user agents and mail transfer > agents come configured to use MSA port 587 by default for message > submission instead of making customers remember anything? RFC 2476 was > published over a decade ago, software developers should have caught up > to it by now. Imagine if the little box in Outlook and Exchange had > the MSA port already filled in, and you only needed to change it for > legacy things. > -- Steve King Network Engineer - Liquid Web, Inc. Cisco Certified Network Associate CompTIA Linux+ Certified Professional CompTIA A+ Certified Professional
