[51462] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Schwartz)
Tue Aug 27 21:14:06 2002
From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
To: <brad.knowles@skynet.be>,
Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com>,
Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 18:13:32 -0700
In-Reply-To: <a05111b14b991a690e60f@[146.106.12.76]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>>Maybe I don't want my email sitting around in your MTA queue=
for
>>your sysadmins to read.
> Given the volumes of mail that pass through these kinds of
>things, that's not likely to be a problem. More likely to be a
>problem would be the fact that the mail might sit there for a=
week
>before it gets retried a second time. That takes careful=
system
>engineering for load, making sure to retry old messages often=
enough,
>etc....
=09I'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.
=09DS
