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Re: Lazy network operators


From: Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:17:47 +0300


Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

That was solved 6 years ago. You let them use port 587 instead of 25.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2476.html

How many MUAs default to port 587? How many even know about 587 and give it as an option other than fill-in-the-blank?

...back to the computer literacy requirement again...

How many support calls you get by requiring 587 instead of 25?

Pete


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