] To gain improvement in e-mail authenticity while keeping ] as much SMTP compatibility as possible, a method is ] suggested which doesn't change SMTP at all. The idea is ] to store informations about how to verify who is ] authorized to transmit e-mails through SMTP with a ] particular sender address (either full address or - for ] simplicity - only the domain part of the address) in a ] directory service, which is currently the DNS. To be ] precise, the verification consists of two steps, the ] classical pair of authentication and authorization: |