On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:53:35AM -0500, Noah Sheppard wrote: [attribution to Chris is missing] > > >> On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 11:04 -0500, Dennis Putnam wrote: > > >>> I want to enforce TLS but I don't care what certificate the > > >>> receiver uses. Thanks. > > >> Apart from the fact that enforcing TLS with SMTP is usually a > > >> bad idea, [..] > > Why is TLS w/ SMTP a bad idea?
TLS with SMTP is a fine idea. *Enforcing* TLS with SMTP is usually a bad idea. Many sites might not support it, and if you require TLS, you cannot get their mail nor send to them. -- Offlist mail to this address is discarded unless "/dev/rob0" or "not-spam" is in Subject: header