I dont think non-TLS relaying will go away from my chair. I work for a large university with large medical/health care relationships. For those organizations we talk SMTP to who demand TLS per policy, we configure our MTAs to require TLS for that specific relaying. The rest remains in the clear (which is a majority of our mail traffic as opposed to the TLS-encrypted e-mail).
Now if I worked _for_ Pfizer, my view may be different. But I dont so its not. :) -Nick Silkey On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Jeremy Charles <[email protected]> wrote: > At one point, the default posture of most SMTP implementations was to allow > open relaying unless the admin specifically configured it to be blocked. > > > > Currently, the default posture of most SMTP implementations is to allow > non-TLS connections unless the admin specifically configures them to be > blocked. > > > > My feeling is that this default posture will also change at some point in > the future so that non-TLS SMTP connections are blocked unless specifically > configured to be allowed. At least, I'm hoping for that, given that I work > for a company that interacts with healthcare organizations a lot. > > > > The big question in my (biased) mind is... when will that happen and what > could be done to help hurry it along? > > > > > > === > > Jeremy Charles > > Epic - Computer and Technology Services Division > > [email protected] > > > > Phone: 608-271-9000 Fax: 608-271-7237 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
