Re: [Asrg] 6. Proposals - AMTP (rev 01) - MPC

[Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>]

At 8:32 PM -0500 2003/10/02, Bill Weinman wrote:

>  RFC 3207 section 4 has this statement: "A publicly-referenced SMTP
>  server MUST NOT require use of the STARTTLS extension in order to
>  deliver mail locally." That makes it impossible to use as a way of
>  combating email abuse.
	As I've proven with a previous post, plenty of MTAs out there are 
sufficiently hosed that this requirement is not (and perhaps cannot 
be) enforced.

	We need to walk before we can run.

>  Also, SMTP requires backward compatibility with non-extended versions
>  of the protocol (RFC 2821, section 4.1.1.1). That's why AMTP couldn't
>  work as an SMTP extension.
	Which will seriously cut down the acceptance rate.

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Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>

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