On 3/13/2011 4:57 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote:
Hello
Sorry if this seems a bit off topic ...
Postfix is really a great piece of software
and we all thanks to Wiese for his tremendous work.
But to fight spam and all other malicious
problems it's getting more and more sophisticated
and complex to configure every day.
It is not a criticism it is a fact that jump
to every sysadmin's face.
Email communication require a more and more complicated
machinery every day too.
Does anyone has knowing of the future of SMTP ?
Is there some project to replace it by some
more secure protocol ?
Understand me well , writing this I do not want
to start some war I would like to know if there
is some long term reflexion "somewhere" to build
some other protocol.
I know this would be a huge project ...
Thanks for your attention
It is very off-topic :-)
Admittedly the result of a quick Google search, the article below is a
fairly cogent summary of some major issues, especially why a
'replacement for SMTP' is probably the wrong question, or at least a
hopeless oversimplification. It's kind of like asking why don't we make
AA batteries one cm longer to store more energy. Not a technology issue
per se, but an installed base of 100,000,000,... (insert zeroes as needed)
http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_10-2/102_smtp.html
How about one more thoughtful post at most and then a threadkill.
-DB
