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Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?
- From: Mikael Abrahamsson
- Date: Sat Feb 26 18:13:14 2005
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> I am against port blocking as much as the next guy, I just see port 587
> as a disaster waiting to happen. ISP provided email credentials are
> universally transmitted in plain text. If an (insert any ISP here)
> employee can be arrested for selling email addresses to spammers, what
> keeps them from collecting and selling 587 credentials?
If you limit port 587 sending to let's say 1000 email per day you probably
cover 99.9% of all normal users, and you're very likely to catch the
spammers abusing an account.
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
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