Protocol Action: Message Submission to Proposed
The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Wed, 11 November 1998 13:55 UTC
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Subject: Protocol Action: Message Submission to Proposed
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The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'Message Submission' <draft-gellens-submit-13.txt> as a Proposed Standard. This has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Keith Moore and Patrik Faltstrom. Technical Summary This protocol makes it possible to create an MSA (Message Submission Agent) in a proper and standardized way using standard SMTP, i.e. to be able to create an easier way for a client to send / inject SMTP messages into the normal mail routing environment. This even though the client might connect from networks not being considered "home". A client should according to this paper use the authenticated SMTP extension to authenticate at the MSA, and by doing that making the MSA accept incoming messages, even though the destination is not "local" (i.e. authenticate to allow relay of email). Working Group Summary It has been discussed for a long time how the initial step of injecting messages into the mail routing environment should be done. Because SMTP is the transfer protocol in use, and nothing else exists, adding authentication to SMTP helped this paper being created. One person strongly opposed the idea that SMTP should be extended this way, and it was pointed out -- and agreed upon -- that a general submission protocol should be a better solution, but as nothing else exists today, not even as an idea, it was the consensus that submission via SMTP is the way of going. Protocol Quality The protocol has been reviewed by Patrik Fältström. There is strong support for this extension from the vendors of mail clients that have had a problem with roaming clients, i.e. clients connecting to home from all over the Internet.