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From: GROSSMAN@SIERRA.STANFORD.EDU (Stu Grossman)
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Subject: Re: SMTP, 2600, and the security of mail
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Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 18:17:46 EDT
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You could (marginally) increase the security of SMTP traffic by having
SMTP servers only accept connections from a 'privileged' remote socket.  

Of course, you now would be required to run yet another privileged daemon
just to ship mail out of your host.

				Stu Grossman
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