Enabling Nobody = Shootng Self in Foot.

If you do that, you will get ALL MAIL, whether you have the user or not.
This has proven to be a large pain in the arse and will cause heavy server
strain when a spammer decided to send you a message with a script sending
like   Jsmith, JohnSmith, JohnS, Sales, Info, WebMaster, Whoever I
want.....lots of wasted bandwidth.

Travis


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert
> Grosshandler
> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 5:04 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [IMail Forum] VERP
>
>
> I'm thinking about trying to implement VERP - Variable Envelope
> Return Paths
> for our 150,000 piece weekly newsletter.
>
> Basically, each e-mail gets a different, unique, "bounce" address.
>
> http://cr.yp.to/proto/verp.txt
>
> Since we use Gammadyne for sending our e-mail newsletters, the
> sending part
> is easy.  It's the handling the bounces where the benefit comes from, and
> I'm trying to figure out if I can do that with Imail.
>
> The only thing I can think of is to use the nobody alias, so that
> all mail,
> no matter the address, right or wrong, gets captured.
>
> Then, have a program that sorts through that mailbox, separating the good
> from the bad.  Of course, with the amount of spam, the bad will be
> tremendous.
>
> Anybody have any pointers, thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob
>
> www.iGive.com
>
>
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