Hi David, I had thought about doing this at a later date, but I experimented a little today to explore any issues that might arise.
The only problem I see is security. I will need to come up with some sort of security measures so that someone could not spoof your account and add a bunch of porno spammers to your whitelist. I'll look into it some more and we'll see what I come up with. Thanks for the suggestion, Brian On 01/07/03 6:52pm you wrote... >Brian >The "Add this to my whitelist" feature in the HOLD function works so well, >why not consider this as email interface tool. That could open it up so that >the end user could configure themselves. Send an email to the NOXMAIL >account and it could email back a copy of the current user settings. X a box >to set a particular feature and reply. If a feature required further choice >the appropriate email could be returned for additional changes. X the box >beside the "get my current whitelist" to retrieve athe list to remove a >mistake. > >The postmaster or domain or group administrator could have a different set >of email responders. > >A couple of years ago I experimented with something like the HOLD feature. I >tried consolidating email addresses that failed and sent out an email. The >customer removed the addresses that were not legitimate and replied. That >created their whitelist although it only worked after the fact. I loved it >then because it gave the customer all the control and it cut down on my >work. False positives are by far my biggest problems. They take more time >than all the work I do towards junkmail. Hunt it down, try to figure out why >it failed, adjust, guess, sweat etc. When I adjust, did it throw something >else out of whack. Did I loosen things up so that I get flooded. How many >other things will I need to change to make the system run smooth again. >Letting the customer make the choice means far fewer false positives because >they get to make the fine adjustments. > >Just some thoughts. > >Thanks > >David > > >> >> Hi John, >> >> I may leave the LOGFILEPATH setting in there but it will be >> undocumented and >> not supported by the remote administration program. >> >> Unfortunately, you can't always provide all the features everyone wants in >> every way they want them. In your case, you probably wouldn't >> have much of a >> need for the remote administration features as you manage >> everything manually. >> >> To make remote administration work using FTP you really have to >> have a base >> directory. It isn't really practical as a matter of support to >> have hundreds >> of different drive/path configurations to figure out. >> >> You could always run No-X-Mail from that partition. It doesn't >> care where it >> is. > >--- >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Solid Oak Software] > > >Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/nox-list%40mail.noxmail.com/ >Removal address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Solid Oak Software] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/nox-list%40mail.noxmail.com/ Removal address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
