On 7 July 2014 at 19:13, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon(_at_)orthanc(_dot_)ca>wrote:
On Jul 7, 2014, at 7:11 PM, David Levine <levinedl(_at_)acm(_dot_)org> wrote:
We won't find standards support for it: 465 for SMTPS was
revoked by IANA (in 1998!) and reassigned to another service.
But as long as AT&T (I know), Verizon (I think), and whoever
else require it, we're stuck with it.
No we're not. Nor should we support it. The standards-based
alternatives are available and should me used.
The link is rather old, last post is 12/31/2009, so I don't know if
AT&T is still supporting port 465 or not.
I can tell you that I have postfix configured (successfully) using port 487.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r23150259-Postfix-or-Sendmail-and-SMTP-auth-with-ATT
nmh delivers locally, and then postfix connects to AT&T.
jerry
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