Phorm and Cookies

[Chris Edwards]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Peter Fairbrother wrote:

| In fact it is getting to the stage where there _aren't_ plenty of ISPs 
| who permit port 25 traffic.

Good news.


| One question, when you send an email to a relaying mail server, perhaps
| operated by your ISP, where the mail server is the SMTP client rather than
| you, what port number does the communication between you and the mail server
| use?

Don't quite follow - can you explain a little more ?

If you send mail then you're the client and the destination server is the 
server.

The new(ish) mail submission stuff is documented in RFC 5068.  Happy to 
try and answer any questions.