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In article <1992Aug13.102249.16853@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>kanagn@athina.cc.uch.gr (Kostas Anagnostakis) writes:
>>Why not implement SMTP allowing only connections from PRIVILEGED ports.

A better solution can be to accept SMTP connections only from trusted
hosts (and maybe limiting to a specified port too). Mail should be
bubbled like name server queries are bubbled through the net.

>1) If you start doing this on your machine, you will stop being able to
>exchange mail with people who aren't doing this.

Use MX record to point to your "forwarder", well there are still old
versions of mailer that do not care of MX but they are minority.
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