[ILUG] Reminder: Please Respond to S.'s Invitation

[paul at clubi.ie]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Colm Buckley wrote:

> How would it tell?  Use of SPF records isn't really widespread enough to
> have good spoof detection.  There's nothing tricky about "faking" a from:
> field; there is simply no authentication built into SMTP.

And for the "SMTP sucks and should be replaced cause it doesn't do 
authentication!" crowd: you can always build end-end authentication 
on top of it (far more realistic than trying to secure a network on a 
hop->hop basis).

regards,
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