[51504] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Knowles)
Wed Aug 28 21:32:16 2002
In-Reply-To: <1625244.1030476776@[10.9.18.6]>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 00:51:08 +0200
To: Jim Hickstein <jxh@jxh.com>
From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Cc: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>,
Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 7:32 PM -0700 2002/08/27, Jim Hickstein wrote:
> Hear, hear! I run an email-only service provider
> (www.imap-partners.net), and we have to help certain users over
> the threshold at e.g. Earthlink by permitting them to reach us
> on another port. This is logically ridiculous, and bound to
> change.
Of course, IMAP supports using an outbox on the server, and this
allows you to completely by-pass SMTP. Indeed, do this over SSL/TLS,
and the connection is secure and cryptographically authenticated, and
you avoid the issues of whether or not port 25 is transparently
proxied, etc....
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
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-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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