Ben Kamen wrote: ...snip...
But seriously, it's so easy to set up StartTLS on the client side...
you know, you would think that... but, as an example, Microsoft Entourage (part of Office 2000) for OS X doesn't support STARTTLS, only SSMTP. sure you can use SMTP AUTH, but you'd have to configure your mail server to support STARTTLS and SSMTP as well.
as an ISP, you can't be platform biased either. you have to take into account every possible mail client that anyone using your servers may attempt to use. like it or not.
granted, *I* don't like it... and I pretty much force all my users (of my personal domain's mail server) to use SMTP AUTH/STARTTLS, but I only have about 14 users, and they don't pay for the service so they know it's my way or the highway. (heh) ...
anyways, I've been thru the "i want it as secure as possible without being too restrictive for what platform/mail client my users choose to use" thing. much easier said than implemented.
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