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List:       inet-access
Subject:    Re: Blocking outbound 24 for DSL/Dialup subscribers / Virii	Infected
From:       Chuck Mead <csm () MoonGroup ! com>
Date:       2004-12-10 4:17:01
Message-ID: 41B9233D.9020809 () MoonGroup ! com
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Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 02:33:01PM -0800, JC Dill wrote:
> 
>>If you decide to block port 25 except to your own servers, please offer 
>>a secure and authenticated non-web protocol (such as starttls) for your 
>>customers to access your mail servers (POP and SMTP) when they are NOT 
>>on your network, so that they can have just one mail setup that works no 
>>matter where they are (at home, and at work, when connected to a 
>>wireless net down at the coffeeshop, etc.). 
> 
> 
> Let me add (a) a hearty second to this and (b) apologize for not saying
> roughly the same thing myself.  Yeah, it can take some work to set this
> all up -- especially when dealing with an existing environment -- but
> it's worth it.  (...he says as he contemplates the remaining 8-10% which
> remains as-yet unfinished...)

/me does it in two different ways. I have smtp-auth/TLS as well as 
pop-before-smtp.


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