On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 10:14 -0500, Art Alexion wrote: > Trying to be blunt, but not rude here, but it occurs to me that if it is > not too cumbersome to go to all of the trouble of creating new accounts > to subscribe to each list, why is it too cumbersome to add those > accounts to evolution? > > The functionality you ask for seems most useful to spammers who wish to > forge the "from" header. I would hope that evolution does NOT add this > functionality. Is there a reason why you need separate addresses for > each list and why you don't want to actually USE those accounts on your > MUA? > > I am going to guess this is why the 2005 post did not get any "useful" > responses?
To be perfectly clear, i do /not/ create separate machine or email accounts for each list. As i noted in my previous email: "I use separate email addresses for all of the mailing lists i am subscribed to (in the form [EMAIL PROTECTED])..." This is a normal, functional, and reasonably standard way of allowing users to have many functional addresses (+suffix), based on one email or machine account. My MTA of choice, Postfix, refers to this as a "recipient delimiter"; other MTAs have similar functionality under different names. See Wikipedia for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address#Plus_.28or_Minus.29_addressing As for the "why", that's quite simple: to keep some level of control over how my email address is used by each of the various mailing lists, forums, web sites, etc... If my email address is harvested, sold, hacked, or otherwise leaked, the (spam) impact to me is non-existant, since i can simply i procmail the compromised address to /dev/null. In the same vein, i can weight my anti-spam infrastructure based on the address; for example, when i have to give an address to a website, i use the form "dma+WEB[sitename]". When my anti-spam system receives an email with the "dma+WEB" string in the local-part, the email is subjected to more checks than for something in the form "dma+LIST". -- Daniel Maher <dma AT witbe.net>
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