John Peach <john-nanog@johnpeach.com> writes:
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:06:02 +0200 Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> wrote:
It's common knowledge that 465 *was* smtps. A decade ago. But it has never gone anywhere, and it is way overdue for an "obsolete" tag. Everyone actually caring about SMTP over SSL are using STARTTLS on port 25 and 587. The faster we kill SMTPS the better. Keeping it in current /etc/services and the like is only going to confuse people.
You obviously don't use a Blackberry with an imap(s) server.....
No, I obviously don't. But I'm eager to be educated: What the heck does imap(s) have to do with port 465/tcp? I can guess... I have also been frustrated while trying to configure all sorts of MUAs. But don't you think that you had been better off if the 465/tcp entry in /etc/services had been updated when it should, 5 years ago, on the system where that Blackberry MUA was developed? If you fix /etc/services today then maybe you don't have the same problem with your new Blackberry 5 years from now. Bjørn