[119998] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Official Mail, was SPF Configurations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Mon Dec 7 17:27:31 2009
Date: 7 Dec 2009 22:26:27 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200912070849050.32BF5B92.19722@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>I would love to know how the marketplace wants to handle "Official Mail,"
>but I'm not expecting useful answers here.
The marketplace doesn't have a clue. We have a plenty of tools in the
toolbox, from heavyweight S/MIME to lighter weight DKIM+VBR to
proprietary Goodmail, but among the mailers with a stake in having a
reliable spoof-resistant channel I don't see much interest in doing
anything other than whatever they're doing now.
If it were up to me, I'd use per-recipient password-protected RSS or Atom
feeds with emailed notices that just say to check your feed, but that has
patent issues.
R's,
John
