Hadmut Danisch <hadmut(_at_)danisch(_dot_)de> wrote:
The reason is simple: It's mainly the POP account.
People need to exchange e-mail from virtually anywhere,
whether from home with a dynamically allocated IP address,
of from any phone plug in a hotel right in the middle of nowhere,
with an IP address of any local ISP. That's OK, I agree with that.
I do it the same way.
Let me re-phrase that:
"People need to be able to send email from anywhere, to anyone,
using any email address they choose."
I don't think that's a good idea.
But when sending e-mail, things dramatically change:
- Many ISPs deny to support their clients in mail delivery.
- Even if they do, most clients deny to use it.
- Instead, clients insist on directly deliver their email
to the world through SMTP without any authorization/authentication.
Too bad. I can't drive 200 MPH on city streets, much as I may like
to.
There are technical solutions to this problem. Authenticated SMTP
exists, and should be used.
It's ugly to to create hacks to work around the fact that people are
unwilling to use existing protocols. It just makes the problem worse.
Alan DeKok.
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