[Mailman-Developers] Mailman and Submission port

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Patrick Ben Koetter writes:

 > To clarify: I don't want to require users to authenticate in order
 > to allow them to send. I want mailman to use a stanardized port for
 > message submission (and that brings in the authentication
 > requirement).

Oh, so this is outgoing?  Now I see.

I still don't think it's a good idea until we've checked that most
popular OS distros supply all their MTAs configured to accept on port
587, and we had better have a bullet-proof autoconfigurator for it.
MTA issues are the biggest FAQ that we don't have a good canned answer
for, and this is not going to make them fewer without a lot of
"cooperation" from MTA packagers.

On this family-oriented channel, I think it is best not to describe
the pain this will cause cPanel and Plesk clients.