yes, discouraging unencrypted SMTP on port 25
My former ISP has it blocked outbound everywhere except their virus scanning SMTP relay -- a measure they put in 20 years ago in response to the early e-mail worms of the early '00s
Nowadays in order to combat spam and spoofing, an "unofficial standard" is emerging that everyone use SMTP over TLS on a different port and have to use verification mechanisms like DKIM
I'm not surprised to see cloud providers enforcing it too
J. "Henry" Waugh
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2024-08-21 20:54:02 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…dhjr
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