(FWD) port 587

[Christopher W.]

Thank you for a singularly cogent explanation,Bob. It also explains why 
I get so little spam thru my gmail account.
Chris

Bob said the following on 9/25/2005 3:17 AM:

>Gmail uses 25, 465 and 587 for SMTP, but since almost all isps block 25, 465
>is the preferred SMTP with SSL for gmail, and 587 is the preferred SMTP with
>TLS port (at least their help pages show 465 being used for outlook, which
>doesn't support TLS, and 587 for netscape, which does support TLS.  I see no
>reason to block those ports on my tor server, as pretty much every SMTP
>server that uses these alternate ports requires authentication for SMTP,
>which makes it difficult for someone to relay a load of spam through...
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-or-talk at freehaven.net [mailto:owner-or-talk at freehaven.net] On
>Behalf Of Roger Dingledine
>Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 4:35 PM
>To: or-talk at freehaven.net
>Subject: (FWD) port 587
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>Anybody know the answer here?
>
>(The first answer is "probably not everybody will block it, so
>I doubt it will go away entirely in any case.")
>
>--Roger
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>----- Forwarded message from "Christopher W." <kyfho23 at gmail.com> -----
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>From: "Christopher W." <kyfho23 at gmail.com>
>To: arma at mit.edu
>Subject: port 587
>
>as a non-technical but paranoid Internet user, will the blocking of port
>587 mess up Gmail? 587 is Gmail's SMTP port?
>
>Chris Wetmore
>Whereabouts Unknown :)
>
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