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Re: POP3 extensions - thanks

2003-09-09 09:24:24
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Dan Kolis wrote:

Pete Resnick at Qualcomm tells me/us of POP3 extensions:
RFC 2449: POP3 Extension Mechanism.

and

POP already has authentication (RFC 1734) and TLS (RFC 2595), but I 
don't think that's what you're talking about. I don't see how crypto 
or authentication apply to spam in the context of POP here.

All I was thinking is it seems like the SMTP infrastructure is sort of hard
to tinker with. Businesses live and die by email, etc and any chance
something they want doesn't get thru is a big deal for people.

While sitting in the POP3 holding pen... a email could be subject to
scrutiny of different kinds that might be easier to manage than a change to
SMTP stuffola.

It's just sitting in the users mail spool... pop3 is just a tool for mua's  
without filesystem access to get access to the mail in the spool... if you 
want to do stuff to mail before you deliver it to the user, you do that in 
the mta, after, the mua. 
 
I will read the RFC so I know more about what I'm mumbling about in the 
future.

Cool
thanks
Dan



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