IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> RE: Mandatory Delivery Method for

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

From: Michael Sweet (mike@easysw.com)
Date: Mon Apr 01 2002 - 15:26:01 EST

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    ned.freed@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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