On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 12:30, Joseph Brennan wrote: > > Sender Permitted From (http://spf.pobox.com/)is designed to authenticate > > who is allowed to send mail for a domain. > > > I wonder if this can take off, in the face of so many people who > have grown accustomed to sending legit mail with a sender address > that has no relation to the account and domain they are using to > send the mail. Like my columbia.edu address when I send from my > home ISP's smtp server. Like my vanity domain address when > I send from the ISP that provides connectivity to the hotel room > I am in today. Not that I think this widespread "forging" of > sender addresses is good. But it is widespread. > > Joseph Brennan Columbia University in the City of New York > Academic Technologies Group [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Join the SPF mailing list for answers to this question and likely many others. In fact I believe all of your concerns have been thoroughly discussed and there are even some solutions. I like the idea of some assurance that my domains will be difficult to forge. -- Dream BIG dreams! Others may deprive you of your material wealth and cheat you in a thousand ways, but NO man can deprive you of the control and User of your imagination. Men may deal with you unfairly, as men often do; they may deprive of your liberty; but the CANNOT take from you the privilege of using your imagination. In your imagination YOU ALWAYS WIN! -- Jesse Jackson _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
