Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org)

Wed Aug 28 22:51:08 UTC 2002

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 at 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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