[GTALUG] home mail servers, was: static IPs are available with TekSavvy Fibre

[Val Kulkov]

On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 at 19:00, Ron via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> On 2024-06-08 15:42, James Knott via talk wrote:
>
> > On 6/8/24 18:39, Val Kulkov via talk wrote:
> >> TekSavvy doesn't block port 25, at least they don't on my static IP
> >> addresses.
> >
> > Still, you want to use 465, which is SMTPS.
>
> What if some other smtpd tries to deliver on 25 though?
>
> 465 would be good for the MUA (i.e. Thunderbird), but it doesn't seem
> reliable to depend on all possible other smtpds to connect that way.
>

I provide StartTLS on port 25, and my observation is that most MTAs these
days prefer SMTP over StartTLS rather than sending email over insecure
SMTP. I do allow insecure SMTP for fringe cases of some super old MTAs. And
yes, I provide SMTPS on port 465 too.
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