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Re: [Asrg] seeking comments on new RMX article

Claus Assmann <ca+asrg@esmtp.org> Tue, 06 May 2003 17:34 UTC

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From: Claus Assmann <ca+asrg@esmtp.org>
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Subject: Re: [Asrg] seeking comments on new RMX article
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Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 10:22:48 -0700

On Tue, May 06, 2003, Vernon Schryver wrote:

> Consider http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/doc/op-sh-2.html#sh-2.9
> which starts:
> 
> }  Sendmail supports the IDENT protocol as defined in RFC 1413. Although
> }  this enhances identification of the author of an email message ...
> 
> That the rest of that text suggests that some of the the people
> responsible for sendmail think as little of that as I think of RMX
> seems like yet another irrelevancy.

ident has gained some usefulness again: it can be used to block
squids and CacheFlowServer (misconfigured open proxies).

RMX is different (see Hadmut's response to Dave's comparison
of RMX and ident).

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