On 4/16/2009 4:05 PM, Evan Platt wrote: > At 12:44 PM 4/16/2009, you wrote: >> No... as long as they support plus addressing, you give them your main >> address - joesm...@example.com - then they will accept anything >> addressed to joesmith+anyth...@example.com, and reject everything else.
> That's still back at square one.. I often see my addresses sold, and > since every address is 'accepted', people never get the 'hint' that an > address is no longer valid. Ah... ok... well, if you were accepting the mail yourself with postfix its easy enough to do, but since you're working through a service provider who doesn't do recipient verification, you're limited... The only other thing would be if they provided a black-list that supported plussed-addresses - but again, you're having to bug them, and if they aren't charging you for the service, I understand why you want to limit the level of bugging... So yeah, I guess aliases is the only way to accomplish what you want under the circumstances... > So if I sign up for ABCInc, and use evan+abcinc, then see it's been sold > and gets spammed, if they actually rejected it, the theory is since it > would be rejected, people would get the hint it's not valid. If thats the entire premise behing what you're trying to do, personally, I wouldn't bother because I don't think the spammers take hints - or baseball bats, for that matter... ;) > Well, the problem is I do. Maybe it's OCD, but I like to track where my > address is used and obtained from, hence LDAP :) Probably you're best bet... sorry for the noise... -- Best regards, Charles
