On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:05:16 GMT, Michael.Dillon@radianz.com said:
go a step further and require SMTP AUTH for every single SMTP session on port 25 as well. That means that AOL's mailservers would have to authenticate their sessions on Hotmail's servers before sending email and vice versa. It means that you cannot operate a mailserver without having a bilateral agreement in place with some set of email peers. It provides a chain of
40 million .coms...
Yes, this probably means that we need to have some DNS related changes so that a domain can publish a list of their email peers and so that MTA software can figure out where to forward a particular email to reach its destination.
Yeeee-Haw! A return to the Old West of bangbaths and pathalias. No thanks.