No, its not valid for a mail client to make direct connections.Can you site any RFC that says that?
Orthogonal and unrelated.There are many ISPs that block this. Are they doing something wrong?
Says who?Mail clients are supposed to connect to their configured mail relays, which has the responsibility to route mail.
Your attempt to reinterpret the mail specs in order to apologize for
VeriSign's fraud and unfair business practice is not in the least bit
persuasive.
What is not persuasive is the attempts to claim they did anything wrong.
Breaking existing applications like MUA's (and your ISP's relays) is wrong.
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