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Re: Motion for a new POST NSF AUP

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Mon Oct 16 07:27:59 1995

Date: Mon, 16 Oct 95 11:12:30 GMT
From: "William Allen Simpson" <bsimpson@morningstar.com>
To: com-priv@lists.psi.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu

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> From: Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no
>       5.2.8  DATA Command: RFC-821 Section 4.1.1
> ...
>          *    The FROM field SHOULD contain both (1) the name of the
>               source host as presented in the HELO command and (2) a
>               domain literal containing the IP address of the source,
>               determined from the TCP connection.
> ...
>          DISCUSSION:
>               Including both the source host and the IP source address
>               in the Received: line may provide enough information for
>               tracking illicit mail sources and eliminate a need to
>               explicitly verify the HELO parameter.
>
> Thus, this is not a new suggestion (RFC 1123 is dated Oct 1989).
>
You are correct.  Good memory!  So, how do we enforce a 6 year old RFC?


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