Re: STARTLS/AUTH interaction

Paul Hoffman / IMC <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Apr 1998 20:07:33 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.ietf.apps-tls
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At 07:30 PM 4/22/98 -0700, John Gardiner Myers wrote:
>Should the SMTP AUTH document explicitly forbid STARTLS after an
>authentication, or is it sufficient for the SMTP TLS document to forbid
>this?

I think it is sufficient for SMTP/TLS to do so. What if someone comes up
with SMTP/SSH? SMTP/FOO? It's the job of those protocols to define what can
and can't be done.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium