On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:53:35AM -0500, Noah Sheppard wrote:
[attribution to Chris is missing]
> > >> On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 11:04 -0500, Dennis Putnam wrote:
> > >>> I want to enforce TLS but I don't care what certificate the 
> > >>> receiver uses. Thanks.
> > >> Apart from the fact that enforcing TLS with SMTP is usually a 
> > >> bad idea, [..]
> 
> Why is TLS w/ SMTP a bad idea?

TLS with SMTP is a fine idea.

*Enforcing* TLS with SMTP is usually a bad idea. Many sites might not
support it, and if you require TLS, you cannot get their mail nor
send to them.
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