On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 13:36:26 +0000, Tim Tyler wrote: > Since - in Roedy's essay - messages are digitally signed, authority > to advise about any email address updates would presumably be confined > to those people with access to the sender's private key.
If I have the sender's private key, then I can pretend to be him. That would mean that when you received an email from the sender, you couldn't be sure if it actually came from him or not, thus defeating the purpose of having a private key. > Even /without/ any form of authentication, a standard change-of-address > message - which is understood by mail readers - is a fine and sensible > idea. So any random person -- or bot -- could send an email to my business associates, telling them that my email address had changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], please send all your confidential information directly there thank you very much. Yeah. Fine *and* sensible. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
