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MTAs
URL:
http:///www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2505.txt
This memo gives a number of implementation
recommendations for SMTP, [1], MTAs (Mail Transfer
Agents, e.g. sendmail, [8]) to make them more capable
of reducing the impact of spam(*). The intent is that these recommendations
will help clean up the spam situation, if applied on enough SMTP MTAs on the Internet, and that they should be used as
guidelines for the various MTA vendors. We are fully aware that this is not the
final solution, but if these recommendations were included, and used, on all
Internet SMTP MTAs, things would improve considerably
and give time to design a more long term solution. The Future Work section
suggests some ideas that may be part of such a long term solution. It might,
though, very well be the case that the ultimate solution is social, political,
or legal, rather than technical in nature.
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