On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Dan Kolis wrote: > Pete Resnick at Qualcomm tells me/us of POP3 extensions: > >RFC 2449: POP3 Extension Mechanism. > > and > > >POP already has authentication (RFC 1734) and TLS (RFC 2595), but I > >don't think that's what you're talking about. I don't see how crypto > >or authentication apply to spam in the context of POP here. > > All I was thinking is it seems like the SMTP infrastructure is sort of hard > to tinker with. Businesses live and die by email, etc and any chance > something they want doesn't get thru is a big deal for people. > > While sitting in the POP3 holding pen... a email could be subject to > scrutiny of different kinds that might be easier to manage than a change to > SMTP stuffola. It's just sitting in the users mail spool... pop3 is just a tool for mua's without filesystem access to get access to the mail in the spool... if you want to do stuff to mail before you deliver it to the user, you do that in the mta, after, the mua. > I will read the RFC so I know more about what I'm mumbling about in the future. > > Cool > thanks > Dan > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2