Lat year has probably seen the worst outbreak of email viruses trojans......

The year alsop witnesses a massive increase in spam mail....... Although lot of companies came out with spam filter.... but then there was always a fear that legitimate mails are not been delivered to its destination.....

All in all.. it was like poor insects caught in the spiders web..........

Infact a recent survey pointed that big organizations have started relying on voice mails for communcating important messages......

In early December, Congress passed the first federal law designed to regulate junk e-mail, the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003, better known as CAN-SPAM.

There are so many solutions but i guess ..none adress the real concerns for email service....

Spam filter are good.. but spammers always find a way to defeat it....

The solution lies in basic email protocol itself which has few inherent flaws

I remember a discusion with my CTO on this issue... we were using lotus notes... one of the paranoid security vendors pointed that anyone could send mail forging to be our companies MD.. I had a though time explaining my CTO at that time that it was possible for even me to send a mail a bill_gates@microsft.com.. or for that matter any mail id....

There is no genuine authentication that ever takes place in emails.anyone can email to anyone....with so many open relay servers anyone can send tons of messages to the world.....

So have we seen a rise in emails used to dupe critical information from users.....

I had personally caught one such incident where the sender proclaimed that they were partners of yahoo and mentioned that enter your yahoo userid and password to access the whole new world of exciting free greetings... I guess it was to snatch people yahoo id....

The page was built exactly like a yahoo page... which was send to user as email....

Experts have recommended charging of few amount while sending messages,, in that way spamers would think twice before spending so many messages... rankly i dont see this as solution....

Seriously I feel there should be a system where email can be authenticated..... every sender needs to be properly identified.... and verified that the source is valid....

Again the basic protocols used for email are full of flaws.... SMTP which are not properly configured act are open relay server for spammers.....

Pop, Imap and SMTP send unencrypted messages whereby increasing the risk of message being intercepted and disconfigured........

With so many problems around emails.... I guess what really would be future of email ???