Problem with Iphones

[Alex Neuman]

the MS server should be able to reject at the MTA level any invalid users though, otherwise it'll backscatter. 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Poe <rob at poeweb.com>
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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:16:58 
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Subject: Re: Problem with Iphones

Never said it was security by obscurity.  It's called letting your 
remote users auth to the "home" system instead of your MailScanner

On 9/22/2010 10:03 AM, Alex Neuman wrote:
> Security by obscurity is not security.
>
> Using SMTP AUTH - and checking/scoring for it at the SA level - would help a lot without compromising the security.
>
> On Sep 22, 2010, at 9:58 AM, Rob Poe wrote:
>
>    
>> I set up a weird/strange port to the internal SMTP server and let the iPhones auth against the internal email server instead of trying to maintain users on the MailScanner servers.
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>    
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