Re: Can we please refuse mail to the list from list addresses?

[Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 03:33:33PM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> 
> Not practical.  When I'm on the road (about 150 days a year) hotels and 
> cafe wireless often block port 25 and 143.  So I absolutely have to use a 

But they're mostly not blocking port 587, which is where mail is supposed to
be submitted to.  And if they _are_ blocking it, then they need to be hit
with a cluestick.

> direct SMTP.

Nobody should be using "direct SMTP" as such in this day and age.  That's
what the submission port is for.

A

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