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Re: mobile user strawman argument

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Boyle)
Thu Jun 30 17:49:19 2005

Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:43:50 -0400
To: Mike Leber <mleber@he.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Robert Boyle <robert@tellurian.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0506301353130.1324-100000@ruby.he.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


At 05:02 PM 6/30/2005, you wrote:
> >       Of course, if you're going to do this, you should also be doing
> > at least SMTPAUTH and preferably TLSSMTP, but then again many clients
> > are broken and don't support these technologies or don't support them
> > correctly.
>
>Or you support POP AUTH, which just works, is in widespread use (probably
>the most widespread of the methods of authenticating the submit port after
>allowing relaying by IP), and was implemented years ago when open relays
>were closed.

We support all of the above - including only authenticated submit port use. 
I don't really understand the religious discussion of which protocols 
should be supported and which should not be. Support them all and let your 
customers decide which ones work for them based on their particular 
circumstances at the time and the network they happen to be using.

-Robert


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