SMTP authentication for broadband providers

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Fri Feb 13 14:27:52 UTC 2004


On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:05:16 GMT, Michael.Dillon at radianz.com  said:

> go a step further and require SMTP AUTH for every single
> SMTP session on port 25 as well. That means that AOL's mailservers
> would have to authenticate their sessions on Hotmail's servers
> before sending email and vice versa. It means that you cannot
> operate a mailserver without having a bilateral agreement in
> place with some set of email peers. It provides a chain of

40 million .coms...

> Yes, this probably means that we need to have some DNS
> related changes so that a domain can publish a list of
> their email peers and so that MTA software can figure out
> where to forward a particular email to reach its destination.

Yeeee-Haw!  A return to the Old West of bangbaths and pathalias.

No thanks.
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