[51464] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Hickstein)
Tue Aug 27 22:41:03 2002
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 19:40:16 -0700
From: Jim Hickstein <jxh@jxh.com>
To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Cc: brad.knowles@skynet.be,
Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com>,
Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20020828011333.AAA1823@shell.webmaster.com@whenever>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
--On Tuesday, August 27, 2002 6:13 PM -0700 David Schwartz
<davids@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.
