Hello,

On 2021-08-09, at 09:39 (UTC-0400), Wietse Venema had the following to say:

: > Haven't seen anything even remotely concerning HTTP in any SMTP standard.
: 
: You assume that clients will adhere to the SMTP standard.

Oh, no, I assume that we speak SMTP when it is agreed upon to do so,
and nothing else, with emphasis on the latter.  Consequently, anything
that does not look like SMTP is rejected.

The Internet has a nice way of signaling "only SMTP spoken here" by
offering SMTP MTA services on TCP port 25 and 587/465 for SMTP Submission.

The general public already conflating the Web with the Internet is bad
enough, at least systems people should be able to keep separate things
separate, simple and robust.


Thanks,
Mono

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