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

[Jim Hickstein <jxh () jxh com>]

--On Tuesday, August 27, 2002 6:13 PM -0700 David Schwartz 
<davids () webmaster com> wrote:

>         I'm afraid the technology to rapidly sift through large volumes of
> information to search for specific areas of interest is widely available.
> 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. Of course, you can easily use a port other than 25 for
> this purpose.  The problem comes when the recipient tries to validate
> your origin address  against your secure mail server.

Your secure mail server (i.e. me) just has to be named in a MAIL-FROM MX 
record.  We do DNS for some of our customers, and can add this trivially; 
the others control their own zones.  Works for me.