Jim Trigg wrote:

On Fri, November 3, 2006 12:09 pm, Marc Perkel wrote:

Gunter Ohrner wrote:

Am Donnerstag, 2. November 2006 23:43 schrieb Marc Perkel:

email. And the virus wouldn't have access to the IMAP password so

Why not?

Because the virus wouldn't have the password.


That doesn't answer the question.  Why would the IMAP password be any less
accessible to a virus than the SMTP password?  (For that matter, what you
just used was "proof by assertion" which is meaningless.  "The virus
wouldn't have access to the IMAP password because the virus wouldn't have
the password.")

Jim Trigg

IMAP requires a password. SMTP it's optional. I think that consumer SMTP should be replaced with not only something that requires a password, but that the user has to log into the account that they are sending email from. SMTP doesn't have to be tied to IMAP accounts. If you have an SMTP account you can spoof anyone. My idea with IMAP sending is to deny the ability of the sender to use a different email address that the one that they are logged into. This is to prevent spam and spoofing.