Re: Last Call: draft-hutzler-spamops (Email Submission: Access and Accountability) to BCP

[John C Klensin <john at jck.com>]

--On Saturday, June 09, 2007 20:00 +0000 John Levine 
<johnl at iecc.com> wrote:

> > Side note: on Unix, will cron be forced to authenticate to
> > send emails at 2 am? :-)
>
> Perhaps a sentence or two clarifying that this only applies to
> SMTP and SUBMIT would be in order

But there are a large number of SOHO and consumer boxes, 
designed for use as firewalls, etc., which are capable of 
sending out mail via SMTP containing their logs.  They are not 
multi-user, are presumably difficult to compromise by virus or 
worm, and are typically configured only to send mail to SMTP 
servers they protect and hence presumably trust.  Given the 
prohibitions in this document, where are those devices left? 
Am I correct in assuming that this document would intend to 
prohibit those devices as non-conforming?

     john


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