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Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?
- From: Frank Louwers
- Date: Tue Mar 01 09:29:47 2005
- Organisation: Openminds - http://www.openminds.be/
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:18:19AM -0500, Nils Ketelsen wrote:
>
> 2. Port 587 Mailservers only make sense, when other Providers block
> port 25. My point is: If my ISP blocks any outgoing port, he is no longer
> an ISP I will buy service from. Therefore I do not need a 587-Mailserver,
> as I do not use any ISP with Port 25-Blocking for connecting my sites or
> users.
Here in Belgium, the two biggest end-user (broadband) ISPs block tcp/25.
Are you going to tell your users: "sorry, you should have taken another
another access isp, take one of the very few ones left that don't
block"?
Kind Regards,
Frank Louwers
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Openminds bvba www.openminds.be
Tweebruggenstraat 16 - 9000 Gent - Belgium
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