On Fri, 21 May 2010 15:35:55 -0400
Phil Howard <ttip...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 15:29, John Peach <post...@johnpeach.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > 465 is for SMTP over SSL, which is deprecated.
> >
> 
> What is deprecated?  Using port 465?  Or doing SMTP over SSL?

SMTP over SSL

> Unfortunately, I need to do the latter because of some network
> security and access issues (and for like reason am doing IMAP over
> SSL on port 993 and POP over SSL on port 995).
> 
> I could go ahead and do SMTP over SSL on port 465.  Are you sure it
> won't conflict with anything?

Just use port 465 if you want, but the submission port would make more
sense (587)

> 
> I'm doing optional STARTTLS (e.g. smtpd_tls_security_level=may and
> smtpd_recipient_restrictions=permit_mynetworks,permit_sasl_authenticated,reject_unauth_destination)
> on port 25.
> 
> What should I be doing on port 587?

Why not use "smtpd_tls_security_level  = encrypt" on port 587?

http://www.postfix.org/TLS_README.html


-- 
John

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