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Originally Posted by Belisarius
And how in the heck can you call it secure? Do you know how smtp works?
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Do you know all holes in smtp ???
Your question isn't of any matter while half the world can hack it.
The current protocal (IMAP/POP) doesn't tell exactely where mail is coming from and is forward immediatly thru SMTP.
The other invented protocol doesn't send the email but stays on the first server it reaches or just the sender his computer and includes the real details of the computer that send it.
You get somesort of notification that there's email with subject X from email Y and you approve/deny the email that is send.
If you deny the email it just stays on the computer waiting till the computer is full or a auto-prune deletes them after 1 month or something.
This way you don't get virusses, spam or anything else in your inbox untill you accept that the message will be send to your computer.
As benefits this also doesn't eat all bandwidth of the network and anti spam software can be server installed and have real IP's to get the bastards.
However they wanted to run this improved protocol on the same port (25)