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Phil Lawlor wrote: > At 12:56 PM 10/29/97 -0600, Cal Thixton - President - ThoughtPort Authority > of Chicago wrote: > >The problem with the 'Caller-ID' idea is verifying that an email address > is >'valid' (assuming you have a reasonable definition for 'valid'). About > the only >thing that sendmail can do is verify a reverse lookup is equal to > its forward >lookup. > > Exactly. I guess the question is, should we build more sender verification > into sendmail, on both the sending and receiving side? > > Phil Lawlor > President > AGIS > Voice - 313-730-1130 > Fax - 313-563-6119 It would seem like a nice feature for Sendmail, but do you think it is realistic to assume that everyone would upgrade? I know of many hosts which use "outdated" versions of Sendmail. Then you would be faced with the question of whether to only allow connections from the latest version of sendmail (with the sender verification), which would limit it's usefulness. Derek Andree [email protected]
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