On 2012-08-03 22:51:08 -0700, Phil Pennock wrote:
> Mail submission from an MUA should be going to the submission port
> (587/tcp) and probably authenticating with SMTP AUTH; if not
> AUTHenticating, it should be on a trusted IP and implicitly
> authenticated by being on an internal network.

That may be the best solution, but the end user doesn't necessarily
have a machine providing such a service (or it may be unreliable
because shared with other users and also used by spammers). In such
a case, the user would want to use the MX of the destination address.

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