[51502] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Knowles)
Wed Aug 28 21:27:04 2002
In-Reply-To: <20020828011333.AAA1823@shell.webmaster.com@whenever>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 00:48:39 +0200
To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Cc: <brad.knowles@skynet.be>,
Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com>,
Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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@skynet.be>
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