> On 10 May 2016, at 05:44, John Levine <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> It occurs to me that another reason to prefer out of band reporting is
> that it's a lot easier to ramp up.
> 
> My impression is that many, perhaps most, existing MTAs can be
> configured to do STARTTLS.  But of course, at this point none of them
> have any reporting extensions.  Viktor and I can write reporting
> extensions for our favorite MTAs, but under the most optimistic
> scenario it'll take quite a while for those extensions to become
> popular in all the MTAs that people use, and no extension, no in-band
> reporting.

Ask you the package maintainer of your favourite distro to update in time.

Extensions and updates must happen eventually, we can't support CentOS 5 
machines only because there're many. This isn't really something that should 
even come up during a discussion on a IETF document, is it?

> On the other hand, you can set up out of band reporting with a DNS
> record pointing to the URL, and a little mail handling script or web
> CGI script to accept all of your reports, no MTA patches needed.  Once
> you start getting the reports, you can start adjusting the existing
> STARTTLS configs, again most likely no MTA patches needed.

DNS isn't MITM safe. DNSSEC non-existent. Also: I'd rather not see hacked-up 
cronjobs but proper implementations.

Aaron

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