Re: Proposal: how to notify owners of compromised PC's

[Phil Brutsche <phil () tux obix com>]

petard wrote:

> Sorry for a borderline off-topic reply, but I'm cc-ing the list so this
> is in the archives, in case any stupid ISP reads this and thinks it's a
> good idea. It isn't.

<sending this to the list as well, since not enough people are doing the 
proper research>

> I left my ISP about 9 months ago because they implemented this very
> policy. It entirely destroyed my ability to send email from my preferred
> address. Our SMTP setup at example.com relays mail from people
> claiming to be @example.com if and only if they have been authenticated
> using a client X.509 certificate issued by the example.com root
> certificate authority.

Then put SMTP on a different TCP port.  RFC 2476, which specifies TCP 
port 587 to be a message submission port for MUAs, was specifically 
created to address this issue.

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Phil Brutsche
phil () tux obix com

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