XO Mail engineers?

Wed Aug 4 20:30:42 UTC 2004

At 03:23 PM 8/4/2004, Forrest W. Christian wrote:

>On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Drew Weaver wrote:
>
> > It is generally the responsibility of the ISP to provide the outgoing
> > mail transport for your connected users.
>
>This BCP seems to be changing.  The new BCP which seems to be evolving
>requires customers to authenticate to their home mail server on the MSA
>port and send mail that way.  This appears to be being driven by
>SPF/Sender-ID-like mechanisms.

It is also driven by common sense. Using Submission with AUTH permits users 
to configure their email service once on their laptops, and use it from 
wherever they roam. Let's face it, the present crop of mail client software 
does not make it easy to quickly change outgoing servers, but all popular 
current mail clients support SMTP AUTH, and to at least some degree (i.e. 
with some coaching of the end user) support Submission port (587).

Let's encourage this. It's good for users. It's good for help desks.