Will, It is a very bad idea for everyone to run their own mail servers for a number of reasons. Mail servers could be exploited. SMTP is a very insecure and badly hacked together protocol. Mail servers can be easily misconfigured and serve as DOS zombies or spam relays.
In summary: bad bad bad idea Now, I see your point, but I think that other alternatives have yet to really be developed. I see what is necessary is dropping or massively rewriting the SMTP protocol. I think the best choice for a replacement of SMTP is XMPP (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=xmpp). John Hebert -----Original Message----- From: will hill To: [email protected] Sent: 6/16/03 10:36 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Cox and smtp pain today. ... Emphatic, but I still don't buy it. The receiving user opens the mail sent by PGP, right? What's the difference between this and the mail simply being decrypted by the user's mail server on the user's computer? In either case, the user is hosed if their machine is owned. Wouldn't it be better if everyone had a persistent connection and was able to run the best available free software? If everyone ran like that, no one would need a "relay" and the encryption was transparent to the user? > > I think it would be cool to have a topic on this at a future meeting. > Everyone interested step forward. <EVERYONE STEPS BACK BUT SCOTT.> Scott! > What a great guy! > Cool, I'd like to see that. Go Scott, or anyone else who can demonstrate PGP, GPG, kerbos and all that other fancy stuff! _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
