Le 13/03/2011 09:57, Frank Bonnet a écrit : > 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 ... >
Consider this: - we get a lot of spam from systems that are owned (zombies, infected servers, ..). to prevent this, we need to secure all systems. is this feasible? not by reinventing smtp. - other spam comes from machines at hosters which also host "legitimate" customers. can we stop this? not by reinventing smtp. - spammers buy a lot of domains and use them in spam URLs. can we stop this? not by reinventing smtp. ... etc. I am not saying we should do nothing. I'm simply saying it's much more than an smtp design issue.
