Re: Submission and SMTP SRV records
2004-03-16 16:59:49
Offhand, it seems like just solving the configuration problem for
mail submission is too much work for too little gain.
It seems to me if (e.g.) Hotmail (or even a large corporate network)
could deploy an SRV for their submission servers (round-robin'ed or
weighted appropriately) and clients supported the SRV, that would be a
lot of bang for the buck in simplifying the most straightforward user
configuration.
I guess I'm thinking that if the user still has to configure the choice
of POP vs. IMAP, the server for POP or IMAP, the means of
authenticating to POP or IMAP, "leave mail on server", and various
other IMAP frobs that sometimes seem necessary, and how to authenticate
to the submission server, getting rid of the "submission server"
configuration item is a minor gain. especially when you probably have
to add a "determine submission server automagically using SRV" check
box.
What you'd really like to do is solve the entire MUA configuration
problem.
That's what ACAP was supposed to do, but it hasn't gotten much
traction, I think at least in part because it tried to solve the whole
problem.
thought experiment: say you're an ISP. what incentive do you have to
support ACAP?
Keith
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