[69154] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: disabling SMTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Welty)
Sun Mar 28 10:59:33 2004
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 10:57:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Mahogany-0.66.0-20900-20040328-102244.00@averillpark.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 10:22:44 -0500 (EST) Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net> wrote:
i should add that i think that this proposal is a bad idea for any
number of reasons, but this cisco pix thing is very concrete
so i just wanted to get it out there.
before i write an extended explanation of why i don't like this
idea much, i'd very much like to hear some of the motivation
behind the proposal. i don't see where a client that gives EHLO
and then doesn't negotiate any options is any different from a
client that gives HELO, so i just don't see what refusing to
accept email from HELO clients is supposed to buy you.
on the server side, i don't see what refusing to send email
when you don't see ESMTP in the banner accomplishes
either.
in either case, such a policy would only last until a VP
figures out that you're responsible for his inability to
exchange email with his mistress.
richard
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