Janne Snabb <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> IMHO it seems pretty pointless to implement DANE for SMTP without the
> ability to verify both sides of the conversation.

The point of server authentication for SMTP is to make sure you are
sending mail where you intend to.

The point of client authentication is ... what?

What the server cares about is the authenticity of the message data, which
has relatively little to do with where it came from and even less to do
with the client host name.

Tony.
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