DTNX Postmaster:
> On 07 Nov 2014, at 16:06, Wietse Venema <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > If real people have a need for SNI, what right do we have to tell
> > them to fuck off because they live in an imperfect world?
> >
> > Wietse
>
> Wouldn't it be prudent for that need to be demonstrated, though?
>
> So far, every time this comes up for discussion, it seems to be fuelled
> by a misunderstanding of SMTP as a protocol, by people who want to map
> what they know from Apache onto Postfix.
>
> Personally, this seems like a poor reason to hasten a SNI
> implementation beyond what Victor has already indicated, as no one has
> fielded an example that cannot be served by solutions that can be used
> right now, without requiring changes to Postfix?
Example: merging existing submission servers mail.example.com and
mail.example.net. Why require that the administrator acquire a new
combined certificate? Why require that the administrator acquire
multiple IP addresses? Why require that users change their mail
client (to use a non-standard port etc.)?
When I built Postfix I did not anticipate that it would be deployed
exclusively by people who are perfect in environments that are
perfect. That would be naive.
Wietse
