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Re: XO Mail engineers?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Forrest W. Christian)
Wed Aug 4 15:24:25 2004

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 13:23:41 -0600 (MDT)
From: "Forrest W. Christian" <fwc@mt.net>
To: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <75634F04BFCFD511BF69009027DC8649ACD3ED@mailman.thenap.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Drew Weaver wrote:

> It is generally the responsibility of the ISP to provide the outgoing
> mail transport for your connected users.

This BCP seems to be changing.  The new BCP which seems to be evolving
requires customers to authenticate to their home mail server on the MSA
port and send mail that way.  This appears to be being driven by
SPF/Sender-ID-like mechanisms.

-forrest

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