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Re: [Asrg] VPNs vs consent

2009-06-25 09:31:20
Alessandro Vesely wrote:
Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote:


AFAIK, there is no way SMTP can be configured so that a given sending location can be whitelisted. One can try and detect what MTA sends the message and whitelist specific filters, presumably doing detection by the IP address of each mailout. That's much like VPN: being at a higher level doesn't ease the task. For example, assume someone trusts Gmail's egress filtering and wants to skip content filtering for mail coming from there. What work is required to accomplish (and maintain) that task, on typical MTA software?

Hmmmm.... You're raising a problem which is similar to the problem of management of user preferences on a border smtp gateway. This isn't a problem at, say, gmail or mailbox providers as most of the time users have only one email address.

But talking about universities, or look alike organisations...

Myself, I have many **non shared** identities : only to cite two, the one you can see in this message and my login.

But also I have many **shared** identities. These identities correspond to email addresses (administrative or not) which resolve to many people. I can hardly see some kind of management of *shared consent* for these addresses.

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