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Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?
- From: Valdis.Kletnieks
- Date: Fri Feb 25 13:05:14 2005
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 02:30:01 EST, Jim Popovitch said:
> Why not a VPN solution. If you have mail servers that your users need,
> chances are that you also have file servers, internal web servers.
> calender servers, etc.
We're talking ISPs and other "mostly open" providers, not corporate nets.
Remember that a *big* part is the support nightmare of getting your 50,000
Joe Sixpack subscribers to pull down a menu and change a 25 to a 587.
And you intend to make them purchase, install, and configure a VPN?
> Should file/web/calender servers all open one
> port or internal access and a second port for authenticated external
> access?
Last I heard, if you have "public" and "internal" web content, Best Practices
says to put then not on different ports, but *different hosts* - the public
one out in your DMZ, and your internal one on your internal network.
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