Re: rfc2487bis-04: Failed negotiations & virtual hosting

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@xxxxxxx>]

At 2:44 PM -0700 10/27/00, Chris Newman wrote:
> --On Tuesday, October 17, 2000 11:01 +0200 Lutz Jaenicke 
> <Lutz.Jaenicke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > An "easy" way to do it would be to
> > extend STARTTLS to "STARTTLS required_target", but this would in fact
> > change the protocol.
>
> I'd be amenable to a "MULTIDOMAIN" EHLO keyword, with the following meaning:
>
> (1) If STARTTLS is also advertised, a domain name SHOULD be supplied 
> as an argument to the STARTTLS command.
> (2) If AUTH is also advertised, then usernames of the form 
> "user@domain" are supported and recommended for authentication.
> (3) If neither STARTTLS nor AUTH is advertised, the keyword is ignored.

Just a note that this would also change the protocol, but only for 
servers who understand MULTIDOMAIN.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium