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Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED
Resolution|WONTFIX |
Target Milestone|Exim 4.73 |Exim 4.76
--- Comment #5 from Phil Pennock <pdp@???> 2011-02-05 20:00:05 ---
My first inclination is to accept this patch, as part of "suffering through
working in the real world"; it doesn't interfere with the operation of the
standards version.
The patch does not hard-code in a port-number not assigned for use by mail, but
asks the system for the port number of "smtps", so it's up to the individual
admin what they choose to assign that port to on their system.
Against this, there's an argument that supporting smtp/ssl-on-connect outbound
takes away from the incentive to deploy Submission. In 2006 that was a
justifiable concern, but over the past few years even some of the behemoths
have come around to accepting Submission,
port-filtering-25-on-home-connections, etc. So I think that Submission is safe
and here to stay.
This is a contentious area (especially since my view isn't that of the author
of Exim) so I'm not going to push for this to go into 4.75; I am inclined to
merge it for 4.76 though.
Who feels strongly that this should *not* go in?
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