At 11.19 -0500 01-01-15, Keith Moore wrote:
But from my point-of-view the principal damage that was done was
to thwart the legitimate use of SMTP for submission of messages by mobile
users to their "home" SMTP servers. (and no, SMTP-after-POP doesn't
work reliably, and SMTP AUTH isn't widely enough deployed even now)
It is true that this is the main reason why I get so angry with
this. Having to find the right acceptable SMTP relayer wherever
I go is a pain. And having to send my messages one at a time
directly to the recipient local MTA is a pain with Eudora,
because Eudora is not able to this automatically. I do not
know if other mail clients can do this. Earlier this week,
I was in Bologna and sent my messages in this way, changing
the receiving SMTP server manually between each message to
the server indicated by the MX record of the recipient. It
worked, but was not easy.
I guess what I should get is some simple MTA which I can
run on my personal computer and which does this for me.
It need not handle incoming mail, only outgoing mail.
SMTP AUTH or SMTP-after-POP seems like a possible solution to
the needs of travelling mail users. Are there standards on
this? Why have they not been accepted? Do they use simple
passwords, or do they use crypthographic authorisation -
such authorisation seems to have much difficulty getting
accepted.
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Jacob Palme <jpalme(_at_)dsv(_dot_)su(_dot_)se> (Stockholm University and KTH)
for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/