Verizon.net Finally Moving Email To Port 587

The Washington Post's Security Fix blog is reporting that Verizon, long identified as the largest ISP source of spam, is moving to require use of the submission port, 587, in outbound mail — and thus to require authentication. While spammers may still be able to relay spam through zombies in Verizon's network, if the victims let their mail clients remember their authentication credentials, at least the zombies will be easily identifiable. Verizon pledges to clean up their zombie problem quickly. We'll see.

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great, only 7 years late

[Indy1]

Verizon has been an epic sewer network for years, and has ignored their spam problem for years. If they want to clean up now (or make a lame attempt to clean up, as most telco's do), fine. It just means less work for iptables at my end.

For those who are sick of Verizon's bullshit, here's my list (no promises this is complete, but it should have most of em) of Verizon's ip blocks.

  206.46.0.0/16
  66.12.0.0/14
  207.68.0.0/17
  71.96.0.0/11
  72.64.0.0/11
  72.42.0.0/18
  71.160.0.0/15
  71.162.0.0/16
  96.224.0.0/11
  98.108.0.0/14
  98.112.0.0/13
  68.160.0.0/14
  162.84.0.0/16
  162.83.0.0/16
  151.204.0.0/15
  138.88.0.0/21
  66.171.0.0/16
  66.14.128.0/17
  151.201.0.0/16
  138.89.0.0/16
  141.149.0.0/16
  141.150.0.0/15
  141.152.0.0/14
  141.156.0.0/15
  141.158.0.0/16
  68.160.192.0/18
  68.161.192.0/18
  66.14.0.0/17
  151.196.0.0/14
  151.200.0.0/14
  151.204.0.0/15
  129.44.0.0/16
  138.88.0.0/16
  64.222.0.0/15
  68.236.0.0/14
  70.104.0.0/13
  70.16.0.0/13
  71.96.0.0/11
  209.158.0.0/16
  209.159.0.0/19
  71.160.0.0/11
  173.64.0.0/12
  70.192.0.0/11
  66.174.0.0/16
  75.224.0.0/12
  75.240.0.0/13
  75.192.0.0/10
  97.0.0.0/10