bryankeithmoore

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   by bryankeithmoore 9y ago

   Nothing gets fixed until people realize it's broken. And yet, it's also true that using TLS for mail submission and access has been best common practice for several years, with most providers specifying TLS in their connection in
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   by bryankeithmoore 9y ago

   Except that most consumer ISPs block outgoing traffic on port 25 to make spamming more difficult. So you won't be able to send mail directly to the recipient's SMTP server.
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   by bryankeithmoore 9y ago

   For the case of mail submission, there is a lot of legacy hardware/firmware out there still in use that simply doesn't support TLS, and is mission-critical, and is likely to become obsolete before anyone upgrades it. A lot of th
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   by bryankeithmoore 9y ago

   See my reply below. My draft originally included the mail relaying case but trying to address both submission and relaying in the same document made the document unwieldy. In theory they both use the same protocol (more-or-less) but ther
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   by bryankeithmoore 9y ago

   This document only addresses email submission and access because a single document that covered email submission, access, relaying, key lookup/verification, and message encryption would be huge and take forever to get consensus on. I