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Re: [Uta] What's the right thing to do about Port 465?

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Mon, 10 March 2014 14:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Uta] What's the right thing to do about Port 465?
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Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> wrote:
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> So is the right thing to do:
>
> a)  Recommend port 465 anyway, but document the problem with these routers?

The current use of port 465 for message submission should be documented,
but MUAs should be recommended to use STARTTLS on port 587 instead. They
are generally following this recommendation already.

Tony.
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