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Author port 587 for SMTP
Xah Lee

2005-08-31, 8:56 pm

as far as i know, port 587 is used for SMTP as a workaround because
many high speed ISP providers block port 25 to prevent spammers going
thru their line.

does anyone know if this is just a common practice, or if 587 is in
some standard spec or recommendation?

Xah
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Barry Margolin

2005-09-01, 2:49 am

In article <1125536929.563711.304190@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"Xah Lee" <xah@xahlee.org> wrote:

> as far as i know, port 587 is used for SMTP as a workaround because
> many high speed ISP providers block port 25 to prevent spammers going
> thru their line.
>
> does anyone know if this is just a common practice, or if 587 is in
> some standard spec or recommendation?


RFC 2476, Message Submission.

Is there a reason you couldn't do your own search at www.rfc-editor.org?

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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RedGrittyBrick

2005-09-01, 6:02 pm

Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <1125536929.563711.304190@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> "Xah Lee" <xah@xahlee.org> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> RFC 2476, Message Submission.
>
> Is there a reason you couldn't do your own search at www.rfc-editor.org?
>


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