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Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?
- From: Valdis.Kletnieks
- Date: Tue Mar 01 09:46:48 2005
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 09:18:19 EST, Nils Ketelsen said:
> 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.
That's not when you need a port 587 server...
> 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.
Port 587 is for when you take your laptop along to visit your grandparents,
and they have cablemodem from an ISP that blocks port 25. Now which do you do:
1) Whine at your grandparents about their choice of ISP?
2) Not send the mail you needed to send?
3) Make a long-distance (possibly international-rates) call to your ISP's dialup pool?
4) Send it back to your own ISP's 587 server and be happy?
(Hint - there's probably a good-sized niche market in offering business-class
mailhosting for people stuck behind port-25 blocks - they submit via 587/STARTTLS
and retrieve via POP/IMAP over SSL).
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