On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 07:33:09PM -0700, Watson Ladd wrote:
> The Protocol Police are not going to raid your home, storm into your
> back closet, and haul out the printer to summarily send it to a
> landfill while giving you a fine if we say "thout shalt not consume
> SMTP sans STARTLS".
The key question is whether the printer will be taken away, but whether
bitrot will result, and the user's MTA will no longer accept cleartext,
at which point the printer will no longer be able to send those alerts.
Bottom line, will SMTP without STARTTLS still be SMTP or will it be
out of spec, with MTA implementations under pressure to drop support for
receiving/sending cleartext SMTP.
--
Viktor.
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