Hi Folks, It's time to take this thread to SPAM-L or some other spam oriented list. Thanks in advance, -M< -- Martin Hannigan (c) 617-388-2663 VeriSign, Inc. (w) 703-948-7018 Network Engineer IV Operations & Infrastructure hannigan@verisign.com
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of just me Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 5:26 PM To: Frank Louwers Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Frank Louwers wrote:
The trick is to config port 587 in such a way that it ONLY accepts smtp-auth mail, not regular smtp.
That way, virii/spam junk won't be able to use that port.
What are you, stupid? The spammers have drone armies of machines with completely compromised operating systems. What makes you think that their mail credentials will be hard to obtain?
matt ghali
--matt@snark.net------------------------------------------<darwin>< The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke