Re: [Uta] SMTP Over TLS on Port 26 - Implicit TLS Proposal

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Tue, 08 January 2019 01:50 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: Alice Wonder <alice@domblogger.net>, "uta@ietf.org" <uta@ietf.org>
Thread-Topic: [Uta] SMTP Over TLS on Port 26 - Implicit TLS Proposal
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Alice Wonder <alice@domblogger.net> writes:

>If it were up to me, an RFC would be published deprecating opportunistic TLS
>for SMTP.

Assuming you're actually serious, why?

Peter.