Re: Scope of SMTP Verify

On 2004-03-02 14:03:53 -0500, Alan DeKok wrote:
> "Peter J. Holzer" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I can think of several items which can be verified at the SMTP level
> > (not necessarily in any useful order):
> ...
>
>   I'm starting to think that the most important question is:
>
>   - Is this machine an MTA which will accept mail, too.
>     If not, why am I accepting mail from it?

Inbound and outbound MTAs are often different machines (just to state
the obvious).

>     Why is it not using it's own MTA to send mail?

What is "it's own MTA"? The designated outgoing MTA for the domain in
the return path?

> > 2) The identity of the sender of a message.
>
>   This has privacy issues.

Yes, but it is also the most interesting information to verify.

	hp

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