At 03:46 PM 10/2/2003, Markus Stumpf wrote:
RFC 3207 provides already the TLS/X.509 part on AMTP.
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.
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.
--Bill
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