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Mandatory email verification

To: "Dr. D.C. Williams" <[email protected]>
Subject: Mandatory email verification
From: [email protected] (Mike McNally)
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 94 16:51:23 CDT
Cc: [email protected], [email protected] (Dr. D.C. Williams, P.E.)
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D. C. Williams writes:
 > Is anyone aware of a way to modify sendmail to require a verified
 > digital signature for all mail sent?...

 > Has anyone done any work along these lines? Is there an obvious
 > fault with a system which would operate in this manner?

I think that changing "sendmail" to do this would have lots of
repercussions.  Many services send mail automatically, and most of
them aren't equipped to do digital signatures.

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