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Apache Rejects Sender ID

Posted by michael on from the poison-pill dept.

hexene writes "In an open letter to the IETF MARID Working Group, the Apache Software Foundation has rejected the patent-encumbered Sender ID specification. This means no Sender ID support for SpamAssassin, Apache JAMES, etc. They state that the current license is generally incompatible with open source, and contrary to the practice of open Internet standards."

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  1. Sendmail what is your move now?? by bryam · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Sendmail releases open source milter for Sender ID
    August 30, 2004
    Today, Sendmail, Inc. is releasing an open source implementation of the IETF's Sender ID specification for testing on the Internet. This implementation utilizes the milter interface to plug directly into the sendmail MTA.

    Sender ID is a standards-track proposal that merges Meng Wong's SPF and Microsoft's Caller ID for email. Authorizations records are published in DNS in an SPF-compatible format, and then used to validate user-visible message headers using the Caller ID "Purported Responsible Address". This sid-milter release implements the marid-protocol and marid-core draft standards, leaving the marid-submitter SMTP Extension to be implemented directly by the sendmail MTA.

    Downloadable source code for sid-milter can be found at: sendmail.net/sid-milter"

  2. RMS summed it up well by Skiron · · Score: 5, Interesting

    RMS E-Mail to IETF MARID WG ML

    All listen to the man!