On Sun, 13 Mar 2011, Frank Bonnet wrote:
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.
Does anyone has knowing of the future of SMTP ?
Is there some project to replace it by some
more secure protocol ?
I, too, would have to say "no" to this one.
SMTP is used largely because it has worked since the standard was
implemented with RFC 822 back nearly 30 years ago and it still works, for
all intents, and in fact does exactly what it says on the tin. So it's
not SMTP that's broken, it's pretty much a) the end users who allow their
machines to be zombied as a result of not exercising proper security
practices, and b) the scumbags who actually generate the crap.
The best we can really do is implement the spam blocks for receiving,
unfortunately, and continue the usual practices: SPF implementations, the
varying blacklists, etc.
-Dennis
