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Re: Why DNS?

2004-07-04 22:07:55

On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 06:42:02PM -0500,
 Fletcher Dunn <fletcherdunn(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com> wrote 
 a message of 33 lines which said:

and requests the sender policy from the domain's SMTP server,
perhaps using a simple SMTP extension like

SPOLICY <domain>

What if the sender is behind a relay (a sender with no permanent
connectivity or a sender using UUCP or X400)? Remember that email does
not require a end-to-end link with SMTP and this is one of its great
strengths.

Surely, the relay managers would not like to have to relay policies
for their customers.
 


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