RE: flexfax: Accounting and Billback with faxmail

[JOHN PRICE <john.price@adtran.com>]

I guess if you assigned the user a name and password, they could include
that in the top of the email.  Also, that would be nice because they
could send faxes from multiple email accounts.

Of course, this is not a very secure way to do it (clear-text
passwords), but other internet services have the same problem (telnet,
ftp, ppp).

Later,
John

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On Tuesday, April 21, 1998 7:51 AM, Michael
Ferioli[SMTP:ferioli@comnet.com.tr] wrote:
> I know this question has been asked a million times and I even
> quote the bottom of the man page for faxmail:
> 
>      Because a sender's identity in an electronic mail message is
>      inherently  untrustworthy,  using faxmail to build a mail to
>      fax gateway is problematic.  Unless mail service is  somehow
>      restricted  or  the  sender's  identity  is verified using a
>      mechanism such as  RFC  1847's  multipart/signed  MIME  type
>      there  is  no  reliable way to restrict access to facilities
>      setup with faxmail.
> 
> Ok, so I understand the problem.  Does anyone have a real world
> solution?
> 
> How about using the MTA's logs to cross reference to the xferlog?
> But then again, the source IP could be spoofed.
> 
> Does anyone have any clue how an ISP can setup a mail to fax
> gateway with some kind of reliable billback solution?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> Mike
> 
> ____________________________________________________________________
> Michael Ferioli                               ferioli@comnet.net.tr
> Comnet A.S.                                http://www.comnet.net.tr