Re: [courier-users] www.broken-starttls.org?

[Mike P. <mik...@je...>]

Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Paweł Tęcza writes:
> 
>> Hi All,
>>
>> As you can see below now I have more then 130 entries for
>> domains with broken STARTTLS in my esmtproutes file:
>>
>> root@hermes1:~# grep SECURITY=NONE /etc/courier/esmtproutes |wc -l 133
>>
>> Daily (half-automated) grepping maillog and sending messages
>> to postmasters of broken domains is boring and probably never
>> ending story.
>>
>> I know that domains always will be exist, but now I'm thinking
>> about how to decrease number of them.
>>
>> Maybe we should found the special website, something like
>> www.rfc-ignorant.org, to reporting domains with broken STARTTLS?
>>
>> Branding broken domains is not only one solution, of course.
>> It also can include good STARTTLS HOWTOs for all modern and
>> popular MTAs, for example Courier, Exim, Postfix, Qmail,
>> Sendmail, etc.
>>
>> What's your opinion about it?
> 
> Well, if you want to do it, go right ahead. I don't see anything wrong, 
> conceptually with it, except that I would go even further, and expand 
> the scope to include other kinds of breakages -- broken DNS settings, etc…

and much much more besides.

I'm with you.
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Kind Regards,

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