IPP> RE: Mandatory Delivery Method for Notifications - Commen ts by April 15

IPP> RE: Mandatory Delivery Method for Notifications - Commen ts by April 15

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Mon Apr 1 15:26:01 EST 2002


ned.freed at mrochek.com wrote:
> ...
> And authentication in email is done with SASL. S/MIME and PGP don't even enter
> into it, and TLS doesn't have to. I would therefore suggest making SASL
> a MUST with DIGEST-MD5 the mandatory to implement mechanism. You'll need
> to be able to configure the printer to support the necessary credentials.
 > ...

Except that a lot of companies *don't* (and sometimes can't) use SASL
with their mail servers, and SASL only works with SMTP (email often
goes through a number of other transports, e.g. local delivery...)

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