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Re: submission port usage (was: /etc/services losses)
Edgar Fuß wrote in
<ZMy5UPX01d76J896%trav.math.uni-bonn.de@localhost>:
|I think the de-facto rationale for a larger network goes like this:
|-- You don't want to get your IPs blacklisted because infected clients
| send spam from within your network.
|-- Other sites will allow mail submission on their submission port only
| after authentication (SASL).
|So you block outgoing smtp, but allow outgoing submission.
Seems to me, likely that was the spark as such even. No
auth+login on :25, TLS requirement on submission(s). Different
kind of content checks / milters / filters etc etc. (Though it
seems "we" ("white") waste the planet for useless CI runs, mail
checks, and flights to the Caribbean).
--End of <ZMy5UPX01d76J896%trav.math.uni-bonn.de@localhost>
--steffen
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