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Re: [Asrg] 6. Proposals

2003-11-13 16:24:57
Denny Figuerres wrote:
Excuse me if I may have missed this some where.....

Perhaps one part of the solution will be to recommend some (I think) small
changes to how companies send out email to customers. The common practice of
hiring a third party to send out such emails as newletters airline
confirmations and so forth are done now in a way the can make it difficult
to classify them as HAM not spam for a few reasons:

1) The "From" and the sending MTA's DNS often do not mtach.
2) the DNS / IP of the sender may be included in a DNS RBL as a SPAM DOMAIN
3) attempting to check the user(_at_)domain(_dot_)com fails as it does not 
exist or the
test is done at the bulk senders domain which does not match.

So could the company that is "sending" the email and the "bulk delivery
provider" fix-up the dns records and the sending mta "HELO" to match the
"From abc(_at_)some(_dot_)com" to make whitlisting simpler and tracking back via
headers a bit sane-er ?

If this would not cause major issues it would clear up a lot of issues with
bulk delivery of legit emails.

Just my idea based on some real world problems .....

This is something that the current LMAP proposal could accomplish,
rather eaasily. The domain owner would simply need to add the IP
addresses of the contracted company's MTAs to their allowed list, and it
would authenticate perfectly.

--
Philip Miller



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