decoration decoration
Stories

GROKLAW
When you want to know more...
decoration
For layout only
Home
Archives
Site Map
Search
About Groklaw
Awards
Legal Research
Timelines
ApplevSamsung
ApplevSamsung p.2
ArchiveExplorer
Autozone
Bilski
Cases
Cast: Lawyers
Comes v. MS
Contracts/Documents
Courts
DRM
Gordon v MS
GPL
Grokdoc
HTML How To
IPI v RH
IV v. Google
Legal Docs
Lodsys
MS Litigations
MSvB&N
News Picks
Novell v. MS
Novell-MS Deal
ODF/OOXML
OOXML Appeals
OraclevGoogle
Patents
ProjectMonterey
Psystar
Quote Database
Red Hat v SCO
Salus Book
SCEA v Hotz
SCO Appeals
SCO Bankruptcy
SCO Financials
SCO Overview
SCO v IBM
SCO v Novell
SCO:Soup2Nuts
SCOsource
Sean Daly
Software Patents
Switch to Linux
Transcripts
Unix Books

Gear

Groklaw Gear

Click here to send an email to the editor of this weblog.


You won't find me on Facebook


Donate

Donate Paypal


No Legal Advice

The information on Groklaw is not intended to constitute legal advice. While Mark is a lawyer and he has asked other lawyers and law students to contribute articles, all of these articles are offered to help educate, not to provide specific legal advice. They are not your lawyers.

Here's Groklaw's comments policy.


What's New

STORIES
No new stories

COMMENTS last 48 hrs
No new comments


Sponsors

Hosting:
hosted by ibiblio

On servers donated to ibiblio by AMD.

Webmaster
Replacing SMTP in favor of an authenticated mail protocol might be a good thing... | 156 comments | Create New Account
Comments belong to whoever posts them. Please notify us of inappropriate comments.
Replacing SMTP in favor of an authenticated mail protocol might be a good thing...
Authored by: Wol on Sunday, May 19 2013 @ 03:07 PM EDT
Then how is your mail client supposed to send email?

Okay, I know you're thinking of completely rewriting the mail protocol, but if
you're going to stop end points using smtp, you might as well get rid of smtp
altogether!

I've ALWAYS (from when I first had an internet connection) had a full-blown mail
server on my machine to store my email. I don't want to store my email on some
server in the cloud!

As it happens, I don't use my mailserver to send mail because I haven't worked
out how to get it to use AUTH properly, so I'm forced to send everything via
smtp to my cloud mailserver(s) from the clients. No problem.

But the two ways to fix this spam problem are to either (a) get all ISPs to use
AUTH or somesuch so "open relays" disappear, or (b) for ISPs to hijack
port 25 (not an ideal solution). In both cases they can check for clients
uploading spam.

But whatever you do, you're going to have problems. Option (b) has a lot of bad
points, including breaking a whole bunch of client setups. Option (a) won't work
properly without option (b) because post offices have to accept all mail for
local addressees.

If you can come up with a new protocol to replace smtp, great, but I doubt
banning end clients will achieve anything other than breaking email pretty
comprehensively.

Cheers,
Wol

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Groklaw © Copyright 2003-2013 Pamela Jones.
All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners.
Comments are owned by the individual posters.

PJ's articles are licensed under a Creative Commons License. ( Details )