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Re: Getting open smtp servers fixed

  • To: Gunnar Lindberg < >
  • From: James Aldridge < >
  • Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 17:10:28 +0200

Gunnar Lindberg wrote:
> Assume for a second that I do use dialup and IPsec... Encrypted
> packets, not even TCP header is readable. Oooops. And no ISP can
> refuse my the right to make my IP secure???

I'm no expert on IPsec but... if "not even the TCP header is readable" then
the ISP's routers don't even know that this is SMTP traffic to block except
to their "smart" relay so your point becomes a non-issue (we were talking
about "regular" TCP port 25 traffic).

James




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