Personally, I have gone to a STOP EVERYTHING at the door approach,
except for those on the AUTO-PASS List. That has worked fairly well for
most of my (small) userbase. The only problem is the occasional smart
spammer that sends to a mailbox with a different user's name on the same
domain that is also on the auto-pass list (which makes the plugin9 filter
useless). In those situations, I have to take out the user from the
auto-pass list and manually approve all mail from that user until the threat
disappears.
I would really love to be able to write an enhanced version of only
a small part of TrashFinder; the "Exception" filter to resolve all mail on a
pre-approved basis, but I personally lack the knowledge and expertise to do
this.
My concept would be to authenticate the user (by either IP range,
or Exact Text as his actual return address text that appears in the mail
program), and have the ability to auto-capture outbound addresses that the
users sends to, and automatically add them to the AUTO-PASS list. Also,
make the AUTO-PASS list work on a user by user basis, or global (all users),
to allow individuals to decide to accept-reject messages, which my current
method would only allow/deny on a global basis.
Also, I personally love the AVP program's Trash (tab) viewer to see
all quarantined trash messages in a list style viewer and approve, relay or
reject messages many-at-a-time. But we need a more powerful method of
extracting (inbound) approved addresses (with single buttons), add them to
either the Exception list (auto-pass), or reject them and add them to either
the spam-from address, or spam-IP range (of SMTPrcv), for the overall
process to become efficient.
I am only getting about a thousand garbage messages a day (which is
probably miniscule compared to many of you), and only a handful of
legitimate NEW messages/addresses daily (mostly stuff I personally am
working on).
Does this ideology of mail handling sound like it may work for others here ?
How difficult a task would writing these kind of plug-ins be ?
Sincerely,
John Martoccio
Intelligent Solutions (a computer VAR)
Fox Lake, IL, USA
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