Re: [Exim] AOL blocks SSL/TLS?

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Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
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To: James P. Roberts, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] AOL blocks SSL/TLS?
+++ James P. Roberts <Sunday 21 April 2002 07:33 am>:
> instead of my server! Yes, that's right, AOL actually dares to
> hi-jack/intercept packets!!!! It is the moral equivalent of opening
> someone else's mail, and not only that, but answering the sender on the
> recipient's behalf, without the recipient ever seeing the mail!!!!!


Better than the huge flood of skr1p7 k1dd33 attacks (and open relay hijackers)
operating from AOL before they proxied things. And just _how_ many AOL users
would normally know what a packet is, if it up and bit them on the ass? :)

That said, set up exim to listen on the MSA port (587) as well. That should
(ideally) solve the problem for you. And it is more RFC kosher than weird
ports like 25000, 2525 etc.

    -srs


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