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RE: Can you ever reject mail based on RFC2821 MAIL FROM?

2004-04-28 09:56:14

Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
 
Hallam-Baker, Phillip writes:
If there is an authorization mechanism in place at the receiver end 
you can still take the benefit of accreditation even though 
you might 
not be able guarantee that you were able to list out every 
one of your 
legitimate edge email servers.

I don't understand.

Suppose I'm a customer at a big ISP with 20 outgoing edge 
servers, 19 of which are listed. Doesn't that mean that for 
every mail I send, there's a 5% chance that it isn't 
accredited, so big ugly dialog boxes will apear at the 
recipient's screen?

That would rather hollow out the benefits of accreditation, 
in my view.

There's no question that mail coming from those unlisted servers can't
be accredited.  But there is still benefit in getting the other 19
listed and accrediting mail from them.  Right now, there's an "all or
nothing" requirement for listing your outbound servers.  "All" is
certainly the goal, but "some" is better than "none."