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My practical and technical notes

Hi everybody,

For me, the main purpose of an email address is to be sharable, like a phone number, with this system, imagine the nightmare to give your address to 50 persons in a meeting.

The main source of junk is from public email (for my company, like info@company.com), 95% of the other accounts (john.doe@company.com) does not get any spam, for us the spam comes mainly at the RIPE database address, the info and the address (fake) used on forum for posting.

I think the problem should be addressed in an other way, the perfect scenario would be to give all individual and all system (mailing list) a single identifier, yea, I think about x.509 and pgp.

My company uses S/MIME and X.509 certificates, it's a costly and long process, but it has greatly improved our email reading time.

But I'm not here to debate, let's come back to segmail, technical notes:
Pro:
- Adding a proxy segmail server, if straightforward is really easy in most configuration.
- Segmail can be given as an option by service provider.
- Such piece of software can be easily integrated into existing email server.
Con:
- Slow down the email process.
- Do not stop worms propagation (legitimate sender computer is infected)
- Can generate a HUGE amount of email address, imagine a company with 30 000 addresses, each address has 1000 recipients...

This is my notes for today.

PS: Hope my english is understandable.

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