On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 05:26:48PM -0400, Dave Lewis wrote:
| At this point no, nobody off my network can send mail unless they use the
| webmail client,
| it was a 2 fold reason.
|
| 1) security.. it was more secure not to allow it at all..
| 2) less hassles with other providers. At this point yes nobody blocks 587
| your right, however
| they don't support it either, in the sense that if you have trouble they'll
| say use they're mail servers (most
| isp's anyway), thus it was simpler for my users to just use they're own
| isp's mail servers with the replyto's
| as they're domain's accounts.
I'll work with MS and Sendmail and others to make the above
scenarios very clear to ISPs.
| What says a year from now isp's don't start blocking off network 587's
| ? Then we're all
| back into the same boat.
the RFC says it :)