DigitalOcean blocking SMTP and forcing SendGrid usage

For reference, here’s DO’s post about this:

And looks like port 587 (authenticated submission) is blocked by default:

In my own opinion, blocking 25 (SMTP) and 465 (SMTPS) by default as an anti-spam measure is reasonable, but blocking 587 is nonsensical and seems to have been done out of ignorance of its purpose.

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