On 12. Mrz 2004, at 20:29, Julian Mehnle wrote:


Lorenzo Perone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yet SPF _could_ be a way of "forcing" authentication for local users -
assuming that authenticated sessions can override the SPF filters.

They can. Where do you see a problem?


Then again, I should use separate hosts for authenticated smtp sessions
and for MX...

"could"? Yes. "should"? No, why?


However it is not a viable solution (like I was thinking at first), to
tag mails as "untrusted" ones when they are unauthenticated (or
w/invalid spf) and have local (hosted) domains "From: " headers:
This is what mailing lists usually do.

Why is it not a viable solution?


A new mail transfer protocol is overdue, i guess... :(

What would be changed by a new protocol?

I think some of Your questions are answered along the thread, but I think I'll sort out a few things, tryout your (at first sight) excellent Courier-Filter, and get back to the questions - hopefully with some solutions, too.

Thanx a lot,
Regards,

Lorenzo



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