[61509] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fun new policy at AOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Fri Aug 29 14:58:39 2003
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 18:57:55 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <cistron.5ED9A06E-DA3E-11D7-B146-00039388672E@muada.com>,
Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com> wrote:
>But how about this: in addition to MX hosts, every domain also has one
>or more MO (mail originator) hosts. Mail servers then get to check the
>address of the SMTP server they're talking to against the DNS records
>for the domain in the sender's address. Then customers who use an email
>address under their ISP's domain have to use the ISP's relay, while
>people with their own (sub) domain get to use their own.
Google for "RMX DNS". There's a few other proposals too; see
for example http://spf.pobox.com/
Mike.
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