Re: [Asrg] We don't need no stinkin IMAP or POP, was Adding a spam button to MUAs

Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> Sat, 06 February 2010 19:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Asrg] We don't need no stinkin IMAP or POP, was Adding a spam button to MUAs
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John Levine wrote:
>
>>> I don't see any a priori reason to expect MUAs to be any worse at
>>> looking up SRV than looking up TXT.
>>>       
>> What about:  TXT is older and pervasive?
>>     
>
> SRV has been around for 15 years, and it's intended for telling you
> where a domain provides a particular service, which is what we're
> doing here.  Is there DNS software we care about that can support TXT
> with a funny name but not SRV?
>   

I think that the dkim/spf experience is that anything beyond A and CNAME 
causes
some dns providers out there to fail. Text does have the advantage that 
more providers
are supporting it because of dkim/spf. I don't think that srv has the 
same penetration and/or
use.... which is a pity because srv records are actually pretty nice in 
theory.

I'm not sure that it's an exact fit in any case with SRV, so you'd have 
to hack SRV just
like you'd have to hack TEXT records to fit the exact semantics, so it's 
sort of six of
one half dozen of the other on that front.

Mike