Re: Scope of SMTP Verify

"Peter J. Holzer" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >   - 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).

  Yes.  But they should be under the same administrative domain, and
should be verifiably related.

> >     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?

  Pretty much.  MUA's should use MTA's to send mail to MTA's.  Your
MUA shouldn't be using SMTP to talk to my MTA.

> > > 2) The identity of the sender of a message.
> >
> >   This has privacy issues.
> 
> Yes, but it is also the most interesting information to verify.

  If you use it, privacy advocates will scream, making the system less
likely to be deployed or used.

  Alan DeKok.