Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org)
Brad Knowles
brad.knowles at skynet.be
Wed Aug 28 22:48:39 UTC 2002
At 6:13 PM -0700 2002/08/27, David Schwartz wrote:
> I'm afraid the technology to rapidly sift through large volumes of
> information to search for specific areas of interest is widely available.
Really? Where? I'd like to know what they are and where.
> 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.
Fair enough.
> Of course, you can easily use a port other than 25 for this purpose.
Indeed.
> The problem comes when the recipient tries to validate your origin address
> against your secure mail server.
Well, if you use TLSSMTP, I would think that would be resolved
during the connection, by the authentication of the key.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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