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Date:      Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:41:37 +0200
From:      Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se>
To:        Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Best practice for SMTP relay with user authentication
Message-ID:  <46BF1C21.9040105@intersonic.se>
In-Reply-To: <46BEFE79.1040108@locolomo.org>
References:  <46BEFE79.1040108@locolomo.org>

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Erik Norgaard wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I have my postfix authenticate users before accepting mail for non-local 
> delivery. Till now, users can connect to port 25 and 465 (smtps) use 
> STARTTLS and authenticate.
> 
> But, I stumbled upon submission port 587 which is not reserved - it 
> appeas - for a protocol but for a use?
> 
> I'd like to align my configuration with best practice. Should I just 
> move postfix to bind to port 587 or did I misunderstand that submission 
> is indeed a different protocol? Is there any best practice for which 
> protocol should be used for submission?

I'm not an authority on the subject but we use it here for 
server-to-server. Here's a link to more reading:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2476.html

We use port 465 for authenticated MUA-to-MTA.

Per olof



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