Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org)
Jim Hickstein
jxh at jxh.com
Wed Aug 28 02:40:16 UTC 2002
--On Tuesday, August 27, 2002 6:13 PM -0700 David Schwartz
<davids at webmaster.com> wrote:
> I'm afraid the technology to rapidly sift through large volumes of
> information to search for specific areas of interest is widely available.
> It is totally reasonable to not want to send mail through your ISP's
> mail servers and perhaps directly to a trusted mail distributor over an
> encrypted link. Of course, you can easily use a port other than 25 for
> this purpose. The problem comes when the recipient tries to validate
> your origin address against your secure mail server.
Your secure mail server (i.e. me) just has to be named in a MAIL-FROM MX
record. We do DNS for some of our customers, and can add this trivially;
the others control their own zones. Works for me.
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