[LINK] Question re spoofing with bad reply address

Stephen Rothwell sfr at rothwell.id.au
Fri Jul 11 17:15:29 AEST 2014


Hi,

On Fri, 11 Jul 2014 17:05:35 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr at rothwell.id.au> wrote:
>
> And some clients don't seem to have even heard of port 587 - STARTTLS
> was only originally codified in 1998, made a draft standard in 2006 and
> standardised in 2011.  Imagine using such new fangled stuff!  :-)

Let me clarify that :-)

STARTTLS was codified in 1998 (which lead to the withdrawal of SMTPS on
port 465).  Submission on port 587 was made a draft in 2006 and a
standard in 2011.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell
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