IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org

Wed Aug 21 14:53:19 UTC 2002

On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 10:00:02AM -0400, sjj at pobox.com wrote:
> 
> > what are the more basic problems you're trying to fix?
>    
>  I'd like to be able to publish DNS records announcing my domain's *outbound*
> mail servers, with nice abbreviated forms to say "they're the same as my
> inbound (MX) records" or "any IP in x.y.z/24".  Then cooperative ISPs (like say
> America Online) could refuse any email from my domain that originated from some
> random cable modem, instead of accepting it and then flooding me with 20000
> bounce messages.

What about this email from you which came to me from Merit and not your
mail server?  Would break mailing lists and listserves unless the from
field is overwritten.

-ron