--On January 21, 2006 2:34:37 AM +1100 Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
If you only allowed SSL connections to your mail server with SMTP Auth, then what would be stopping your customers from using your mail servers? Particularly if you use POPS on 995 and SMTP on 465.
We've run into blocks on 465. Besides, we're not geared towards handling the (by my guess) 10-14 fold increase in mail volumes in order to handle all of the outbound mail too, atleast not right now. We could build out for that, but in a low margin business like web hosting, well, arguing to do that to support a flawed standard just seems not right.
We'd rather have the ISPs responsible for their customer's SPAM, regardless of where the MAIL FROM envelope points to. :)