Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> writes: > On Sep 27, 2010, at 9:30 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > >> On 10-09-27 7:20 AM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: >>> "Cannot establish SSL with SMTP server 67.202.37.63:465" does not >>> sound like a 587 problem to me. >>> >>> netalyzr folks? comment? >> >> Sorry, I hit send too soon ... >> >> I've heard from a couple of people that the PIX will remap 587 (and 25) >> to oddball ports if you fiddle the config just right. Given all the >> other bogosity that box does with SMTP I wonder if there's truth to the >> rumour. (I haven't found anyone who can reproduce this on demand, so >> it's still apocryphal for now.) > > 465 is not an odd-ball port, it's the standard well-known port for STMPS. > Fortunately, few people actually use SMTPS, preferring instead to do their > security via TLS using the STARTTLS model after connecting to 25/587.
That doesn't explain why the test of port 587/starttls is trying to connect to the well-known port for smtps. -r