Disclaimer: there are people who know more about e-mail than I
do, and some of them are on this list. But, to press on.
Ummm, I'm wondering... in my own naive way.
My memories of mail gateways involved SMTP-to-non-SMTP mail
gateways, and the ones I hung around existed because one network
didn't speak SMTP. I can't imagine that there's a meaningful
mail system deployed today that doesn't speak SMTP (even if it's
through a gateway).
Why wouldn't we have mail sending applications that spoke (I'm
making this up) SMTP and MT2, with different URL schemes
(mailto: for SMTP, mailtoauth: for MT2) associated with our
correspondents, let correspondents advertise both ways of being
reached on Vcards, etc., and not worry about gateways?
The idea would be that after I get my friends trained that they
can send me mail at mailtoauth:spencer(_at_)mcsr-labs(_dot_)org, and get
subscribed to my mailing lists with this address, I could move
away from mailto:spencer(_at_)mcsr-labs(_dot_)org on my own schedule. If I
hope I never miss an unsolicited e-mail (from my high school
reunion group, for example), I might never move away. If I get
tired of looking at UBE in languages I don't have the privilege
of understanding, I might move away more quickly. But waiting
for the deployment of a gateway infrastructure wouldn't affect
my timeline, either way.
I know this is the dual-stack IPv6 migration strategy two
protocol stack levels higher - would that make any difference?
He asked naively, hoping that an MT2-to-SMTP gateway wouldn't be
necessary... isn't a lot of our mail munging the result of
gateways now?
Spencer
--- Daniel Senie <dts(_at_)senie(_dot_)com> wrote:
At 03:28 PM 6/7/2003, Eric A. Hall wrote:
on 6/7/2003 1:40 PM Paul Vixie wrote:
and in this bof, i suggest that gateways to the current
system be shat
upon and never again considered. when we move, we'll
MOVE.
That's not globally-applicable. Probably better to specify
the gateway
tagging, and then ~Paul can reject mail that has the markers,
while ~Sales
can devalue mail with those markers in their post-transfer
filters.
Indeed, some level of gatewaying will likely be necessary for
transition,
and to accomodate intra-company use of embedded devices which
transmit
email alerts (e.g. UPSs, NAS boxes, etc.).
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