[OpenID] Relationship of OpenID URLs and e-mail addresses

Guido Sohne guido at sohne.net
Wed Apr 4 13:52:21 UTC 2007


On 4/4/07, Brendan O'Connor <openid at ussjoin.com> wrote:
> It seems to me like this would be a way both to have email contact with
> people whom you know only by OpenID, and also whitelist-first email;
> your OpenID provider could simply hold all the email, then let through
> those you've previously agreed to talk to-- much like the twitter
> article (<http://www.zefhemel.com/archives/2007/04/03/pull-messaging>
> for those of you who didn't see it the first time) spoke about.

Won't email headers work fine for this? It could ensure that the
sender is really who it says it is if your mail client is logged in
and uses checkid_immediate to verify your transmissions to the server.

-- G.



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