Re: draft-daboo-srv-email

[Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hector Santos <hsantos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 2) What about outgoing?

> Are MX records considered the solution?

> Using GMAIL as an example, I think it only allows IMAP for receiving and
> SUBMIT (port 587) for sending.  So wouldn't a SRV record be useful for
> the case where SMTP is used for outgoing when the incoming uses IMAP?

As a site where, for various load-balancing, administrative, and
configuration complexity reasons, our outgoing mail servers for clients
are entirely distinct from the inbound servers holding the MX records of
the domain, I would love to see a SRV record for clients to locate
outbound SMTP servers.

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Russ Allbery (rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>