On Tue, 20 May 2008, Douglas Otis wrote:
>
> However, BATV problems and the need for outbound server co-ordination
> disappear by implementing the same BATV hash authentication mechanism
> within the Message-ID, rather than within the Return-Path as BATV does.

That doesn't work, because a significant proportion of blowback does not
contain any of the original message - for example vacation messages. Also,
you lose the advantage of cheap envelope-time rejection.

> Moving this authentication mechanism into the MUA would also remove the
> authentication burden from SMTP.

That would unnecessarily increase the junk mail load on the message store
and MUA<->MS connection.

> Reliance upon the MUA recognizing its own messages

Lots of people use more than one MUA - for us it's 15% - 20%.

Tony.
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