[TriLUG] Fwd: mail relay through trilug.org?

[Matt Nash]

Scott Lambdin wrote:
> On 7/10/07, Tanner Lovelace <clubjuggler at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Port 587 - (See RFC2476).  This is the mail submission port.  It only
>> takes
>> incoming mail from mail clients, not mail servers. (I believe)  You must
>> first do STARTTLS to encrypt the channel, then SMTP AUTH to log in
>> and only then will it let you relay mail.
>>     
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> I think clients and servers are not distinguishable in smtp.
>
> --Scott
>   
Any mail client can perform both functions, but at a given moment on a 
given connection, each is either one or the other.