S/MIME

[Steve Evans]

I got the patches but I'm out of the office.  I'll test it first thing in the morning.  Thanks for the great ammo to fire back with.

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK] 
	Sent: Wed 2/26/2003 1:49 PM 
	To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK 
	Cc: 
	Subject: Re: S/MIME
	
	
	At 17:41 26/02/2003, you wrote:
	

		I was debating with someone on another list about the differences between some multi-thousand dollar spam-filtering software and MailScanner/SpamAssassin.
		
		Here was one of his comments.
		
		        Two pieces of S/MIME goodness:
		
		        - block/quarantine any messages sent using S/MIME to a particular domain or domains (e.g. encrypted mail from   joe at microsoft.com to jane at lotus.com)
		
		        - block/quarantine any messages NOT sent using S/MIME (e.g. mail from billg at microsoft.com to some_lawyer at biglaw.com)
		
		        These features alone are worth the cost for many enterprises, where fear of legal hassles often outweighs purchase and maintenance costs.
		
		Might be a worthy feature.  Let me know if it's possible so I can continue my argument.  Thanks.


	I wonder how many of his "multi-thousand dollar spam-filtering software" packages would have been able to deliver his new favourite features in about 3 1/2 hours?
	(I posted tested patches to Steve off-list a while ago)


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