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ingress SMTP

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Alec Berry wrote:
>
> At the very least, you can run stunnel to allow incoming
> mail submission on port 465 (SMTP + SSL).

I would be very very careful with that kind of setup. Connections to port
25 from localhost (even if they are from stunnel running on localhost)
often bypass most or all of the MTA's security checks.

Tony.
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