Re: SMTP/AUTH before greylist problem
Dave Warren <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.spam.greylist.user |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Bob Beck wrote: > We do this very simply. We use submission (587) with ssl and >authentication for road warriors. we don't greylist 587, and we don't >take unauthenticated un-ssl'ed connections on it. We tell people *not* >to use port 25 for this sort of thing. Spammers don't authenticate on >port 587 so there is no spam danger. > > While true, if the mail comes in on 25 w/SMTP-AUTH then there is no technical reason to greylist or anything else -- If you have spammers AUTHing, you have bigger problems then the port number they use. -- Eat right, exercise, die anyway.