On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:00:11PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
Sendmail now includes Port 587, although some people disagree how its done. But Exchange and other mail servers are still difficult for system administrators to configure Port 587 (if it doesn't say click here for Port 587 during the Windows installer, its too complicated).
This is utterly silly. Running another full-access copy of the MTA on a different port than 25 achieves precisely nothing -- and this "support" has always been included in sendmail, with a 1-line change either to the source code (long ago) or the default configuration or simply by running sendmail from inetd. What benefit, exactly, do you see to allowing unauthenticated mail submission on a different port than the default SMTP port? Similarly, what harm, exactly, do you see to allowing authenticated mail submission on port 25? What will actually give us some progress on spam and on usability issues is requiring authentication for mail submission. Which TCP port is used for the service matters basically not at all. Thor