On 9/2/06, Jeff Macdonald <jmacdonald at e-dialog.com> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 11:43:25PM -0400, Michael Kaplan wrote:
> I have a design for a system that allows for universal email
> authentication by improving upon an anti-spam concept that I introduced
> earlier. Any email may be authenticated, including mail not
> authenticated by existing schemes such as DKIM. This system does not
> require email users to change their behavior.
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> [1]http://home.nyc.rr.com/spamsolution/UniversalAuthentication.htm
So am I missing something, why doesn't a MTA/MDA need to be changed to
support sub-addresses? Isn't every sub-address a new mailbox?
As with existing sub-address systems any network that wants to take advantage of this system (PER-CORRESPONDENT ADDRESS combined with CHALLENGE/RESPONSE subflavor MUA
AUTO-RESPONSE as it has been called)
will need to install it on an individual basis. My hope is that this system will be so effective and non-disruptive that an increasing number of mail systems will choose to implement it.
When I said that this system "does not require email users to change their behavior" I was referring to the average user, not the system administrator who would obviously need to install it.
Michael