RE: Setting the stage

Paul Smith <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.ng
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 22:51 30/01/2004, Dustin D. Trammell wrote:
>Paul Smith wrote:
> > - I would like to get rid of anonymity. I agree with Eric Hall that
> >
> > - I would like to be able to know that if I get an email with an
> > address '[email protected]' it has come from an AOL email server. This is
>
>Are you aware of SPF (http://spf.pobox.com)?  It addresses your first
>two wishlist items and exists on top of SMTP.

I've looked at it briefly. But, it's not used yet (widely anyway), and 
there's nothing forcing people to use it - so it's not much use at the moment.

I suppose it just becomes another reason not to have 'mail-ng', but just an 
'SMTPV2' ;-)

If something like SPF was a mandatory part of SMTPV2 (along with 8 bit data 
transfer, user authentication, etc) then I think there'd be much less 
requirement to have a totally new protocol


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