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Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working GroupProposal at smtpng.org)

  • From: Brad Knowles
  • Date: Wed Aug 28 21:28:25 2002
  • Reply-by: Wed, 1 Jan 1984 12:34:56 +0100
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.

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Brad Knowles, <[email protected]>

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