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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,
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