> > I'm going to agree with Viruthagiri on this one. Setting up a web > server, including TLS certificate, is more advanced than many people are > comfortable with. Granted, all of the requirements / steps involved are > relatively simple in and of themselves. There are more than a few of > them, any one of which can be problematic for someone who is completely > new to doing such.
Finally there is one person agree with me on something. Your response is a sight for sore eyes mate. Anyone else wanna join me? I don't think SMTPS will be introduced anytime soon if you guys are silent. Don't get me wrong. I don't want to standardise a flawed solution. That's the last thing I want to do. However if my solution really makes sense, then it can make a difference to the SMTP world. @Viktor Dukhovni Because of your criticism, I improved my solution. Credit goes to you. Thanks very much for that @John Your new criticisms are most welcome. But I'm not sure whether your old criticisms are valid. IDNs use a complex encoding and there is no reason to assume the encoding > won't occasionally include the string "26pref". Can you provide an example where it's not the case? Sorry, but this is a fantasy. SMTP routing still falls back to an A > record if there's no MX and the DNS has been around for 30 years. And > your assmptions about what is hard and what is easy may be correct for > your personal situation, but they are not true in general. > Look at it this way -- if you can set up an STS server in less than a > decade, you're ahead of the game. Here is the problem with that part. A records are IE6 equivalent in the SMTP world. These days everyone moved to the MX records. There are rare cases where some mail servers still rely on A records. My solution doesn't deal with A records. It's the clients decision whether to use MX record or A record. Let's just pretend my solution rely on A records, you are criticising my work saying that 0.1% people not gonna upgrade to "MX Records". On the other hand, you think 100% of the internet gonna upgrade to a completely new system STS. Isn't that irony?
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