on 11/19/01 3:58 AM, Zachary Braverman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What I would like to do is shunt all yahoo.com addresses into the trash, but > then send back a standard reply to the sender that their message has not > been viewed by me, and if they really want to get in touch with me, they had > better try another way. This also needs to be set up so that replies don't > get sent to mailing lists. > > Is there a way to accomplish this? A script, or something?
You could ask kotodama.net to run a really nifty script on their mail server known as TMDA (Tagged Mail Delivery Agent) - it works mainly with qmail, but what it essentially does is send a confirmation to anyone sending you a message for the first time - if they acknowledge it, their address gets added to a whitelist, and subsequent messages go through. Spammers use fake return/reply addresses, so the confirmation never gets confirmed, so the stuff gets held and eventually deleted. Easy as pie - but it requires intervention at the mail server level. That's why I'm offering this to the folks I'm hosting (who all are really bothered by SPAM as well) Check into it, and see if it could work for you. Harry -- "But once I stripped off all the third party hardware, gave up running the digital video applications I like to play with, and started to treat my computer as a toy instead of a tool, it worked just fine. ;-)" --(Michael W. Wellman, on the Entourage-Talk mailing list, about Mac OS X) -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
