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Re: [perpass] SMTP and SRV records

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Tue, 24 November 2015 22:23 UTC

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Tuesday, Nov 24, 2015 4:25 PM Eliot Lear wrote:
> What benefit would this add to the average user?

It's the germ of an interesting idea.   The theory would be that a sniffer at the backbone would have to listen to all traffic, not just traffic on port 25.   However, it's not as good as SMTP+TLS, and has the same adoption problem, plus SMTP+TLS has a _big_ head start, so it's probably better to concentrate our efforts on making that work even better.


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