>>>>> "TF" == Tony Finch <[email protected]> writes:

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

TF> The point of client authentication is ... what?

So that the person reading the message can confirm the path it took.

It is more a forensic tool than a real-time one, AFAICS.

I have seen benefit from it, albeit rarely, given the small number of
MTAs which offer or request client certs on MTA-MTA sockets.

-JimC
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James Cloos <[email protected]>         OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
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