David W. Tamkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All the more reason that nobody should presume to decide what mail any other > person wants or doesn't want. As long as there are email recipients who > are not sysadmins, spam filtering cannot be accomplished satisfactorily > by blanket rules for the whole site. (I was going to say "nor at the MTA > level," but possibly every user could get a separate subdomain with a dif- > ferent way of contacting the smtpd such that every user could configure the > MTA uniquely for his or her incoming mail.
Sounds like a good idea to me. Give each user the option to configure rules that will result in the message being rejected already during the SMTP conversation, so that it'll not be necessary to generate a bounce. Yes, this will probably require implementing a new MTA which would be designed specifically to make this approach possible, without introducing security risks. Greetings, Norbert. -- A founder of the http://DotGNU.org project and Steering Committee member Norbert Bollow, Weidlistr.18, CH-8624 Gruet (near Zurich, Switzerland) Tel +41 1 972 20 59 Fax +41 1 972 20 69 http://norbert.ch List hosting with GNU Mailman on your own domain name http://cisto.com
