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Re: authenticating the source of mail

2002-05-13 02:08:10

On Sat, 11 May 2002, Paul Smith wrote:

The difficult bits, at the moment, are: (1) knowing that the message has
come from a server authorized to transfer mail on behalf of hotmail.com,
and (2) if it's gone through multi-hop servers, checking that it's not been
faked in that part of the process.

Don't forget about forwarding. Case (2) arises when a user arranges
for her "home" MTA to forward mail somewhere else, either permanently or
temporarily.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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