Exit ports 465 and 587 [was: Tor and Thunderbird]

[Ringo Kamens]

You could probably set a firewall rule to reject unauthed packets.

On 1/2/07, Mike Perry <mikepery at fscked.org> wrote:
> Thus spake Michael Holstein (michael.holstein at csuohio.edu):
>
> > Here's another idea ... gmail allows SMTP via SSL (smtps on tcp/465).
> >
> > You've got to authenticate for in/out (meaning google account) but you
> > can get one of those anonymously. They do POP via SSL as well (pop3s on
> > tcp/995). Combine the two and you've got a functional client.
> >
> > This should help you out .. (applies to Outlook, but Thunderbird would
> > use same settings in different places) :
> >
> >
> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13278&query=smtp&topic=&type=f&ctx=search
>
> For the Tor nodes that allow 465 and 587, have any of you seen abuse
> complaints or problems with SORBS and other vigilante spam crusader
> overlords? If these ports are almost always authenticated I will allow
> it in my exit policy without bothering with the IP list.
>
> --
> Mike Perry
> Mad Computer Scientist
> fscked.org evil labs
>