On 07/09/2012 04:23 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Port 587 is SMTP or ESMTP over SSL.  The connection is secured by SSL in the 
> same
> manner as HTTPS.  HTTP uses port 80 while HTTPS uses 443.  But the underlying
> protocol is the same.  Same goes here.
>
> AUTH is part of ESMTP and defined in rfc4954.  It is an Authentication 
> mechanism and
> is available via non encrypted (port 25) or encrypted (port 587) connections 
> to the
> MTA. 
>
> I don't know if that clears anything up for you.....

Well....  What I just said should actually confuse you more....  :-)

When I was typing Port 587 I was thinking about TLS which is port 465!

Sorry about that.....   I could make up an excuse....but nobody would believe 
me.  :-)

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of the century. -- Dame Edna Everage
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