Hi,

Because the filter depends on the catchall mechanism of a domain name,
we're starting to receive spam based on guessed addresses. It was only
a matter of time before this happened. I think something needs to be
done about the way the filter works (and mentioned this in passing to
Evan on IRC).

It's possible that a silent drop of email that comes to the filter
with an address not in the form of what Laconica expects might be a
quick step. The current answer about non member causes an email to
return to the sender, which for spam will generally return to the
postmaster. It's not much better than auto response, and we all know
that generates a lot of junk.

If this continues, we'll have to turn off the email iusage, which I
suppose is no big deal, but I wanted to make the problem known and
maybe start a discussion among developers of which I'm not.

/r
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