Now hunting for workarounds to continue to enjoy this ability, even under a system that prevents forged From: addresses in some fashion:
Possibility 1. Could your web site be set up as an outgoing mail server -- so that you'd use smtp.mywebsite.com instead of having to use smtp.myISP.com even though you're connecting to the net via the ISP? (I'm not sure how much trouble this is, if it can be done.)
Possibility 2. -- Could we have a new line in email headers that says something like "Really-from:"? You'd enter the email account from which you're really sending the message (me@myISP.com) in the Really-from field -- and this would be the email address that would be checked for accuracy by the recipient's machine under some new anti-forgery system, rather than the From: address. It wouldn't be the address that shows up in the "From:" field on the recipient's email client, so it would accommodate your concern about wanting to be able to show your "me@mywebsite.com" email address to the world rather than the uglier "me@myISP.com."
Let me see if I understand your concern: currently if I host a web site at mywebsite.com, I want a From: me@mywebsite.com to appear in my outgoing emails. If I'm using a dialup ISP for net connectivity, I am using their outgoing mailer (e.g. smtp.myISP.com). If forged source addresses were no longer permitted, I would have to send my email using From: me@smtp.myISP.com. Currently I can just put me@mywebsite.com into my "From:" field by filling in a configuration box on my email software and it works fine.
The Astronauts Memorial Foundation was established after the Challenger disaster. It constructed the Space Mirror memorial at the Visitors Information Center at the Kennedy Space Center, and now provides funds for educational projects.
Excerpt from http://amfcse.org/ -
The Astronauts Memorial Foundation captures the technology developed in the United States' space program and applies it to the field of education. We partner with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to provide technology training to educators throughout the nation with a particular emphasis on space-related technology. In addition, at The Center for Space Education we offer space-related educational opportunities for individuals, and, in doing so, we improve the quality of the workforce in the space industry.
The Astronauts Memorial Foundation
The Center for Space Education
Mail Code AMF
State Road 405, Building M6-306
Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899
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I still haven't been able to find any front-ends for SWISH++ though -- anything written for Perl?
Now hunting for workarounds to continue to enjoy this ability, even under a system that prevents forged From: addresses in some fashion:
Possibility 1. Could your web site be set up as an outgoing mail server -- so that you'd use smtp.mywebsite.com instead of having to use smtp.myISP.com even though you're connecting to the net via the ISP? (I'm not sure how much trouble this is, if it can be done.)
Possibility 2. -- Could we have a new line in email headers that says something like "Really-from:"? You'd enter the email account from which you're really sending the message (me@myISP.com) in the Really-from field -- and this would be the email address that would be checked for accuracy by the recipient's machine under some new anti-forgery system, rather than the From: address. It wouldn't be the address that shows up in the "From:" field on the recipient's email client, so it would accommodate your concern about wanting to be able to show your "me@mywebsite.com" email address to the world rather than the uglier "me@myISP.com."
Maybe there's a workaround.
Let me see if I understand your concern: currently if I host a web site at mywebsite.com, I want a From: me@mywebsite.com to appear in my outgoing emails. If I'm using a dialup ISP for net connectivity, I am using their outgoing mailer (e.g. smtp.myISP.com). If forged source addresses were no longer permitted, I would have to send my email using From: me@smtp.myISP.com. Currently I can just put me@mywebsite.com into my "From:" field by filling in a configuration box on my email software and it works fine.
Is that it?
Could you please describe how an ISP can set up a system to refuse emails that have a forged from: address?
The Astronauts Memorial Foundation was established after the Challenger disaster. It constructed the Space Mirror memorial at the Visitors Information Center at the Kennedy Space Center, and now provides funds for educational projects.
Excerpt from http://amfcse.org/ -
The Astronauts Memorial Foundation
The Center for Space Education
Mail Code AMF
State Road 405, Building M6-306
Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899
Telephone: 321-452-2887
Fax: 321-452-6244
An online donation form is here:
https://www.givedirect.org/give/givefrm.asp?Action =GC&CID=776