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"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Tue, 06 May 2014 17:10 UTC

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Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 17:09:34 -0000
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Subject: Re: [ietf-822] WSJ/gmail/ML, was a permission to...
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>The problem with forwarders using third party services' submission 
>servers is that the user would need to give out their login details - 
>which is a big issue. Maybe users should be able to create extra sets of 
>authentication details for their submission servers, but ONLY for mail 
>going to their own email addresses, for forwarding servers to use.

That's approximately what Yahoo did.  See earlier message.

I still think it's unlikely that many people will find it usable, though.

R's,
John

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