Re: question on ptr rr

Michael.Dillon@radianz.com writes:

We need to add email sending capability to both POP and IMAP so that eventually we can all block port 25 entirely from broadband/dialup edges.

What's wrong with port 587 (rfc 2476 sec. 3.1) and requiring SMTP AUTH (rfc 2554), as people have widely deployed today? The problem is education; the technology is already widely available and deployed.

And we need to reinstate the use of SMTP relays in order for smaller ISPs to have access to the core of the email system.

This is obviously some use of the term "need" to which I am heretofore unaccustomed. ---Rob