Hello sambarians, I just tried a new program called STEVEN (it can be found here http://www.softwaredevelopment.net.au/).
My question is, can this be built into Sambar? It shouldn't be all that difficult. Here's how it works (in SMTP mode): "(STEVEN) employs an advance email checking system that validates the sender of the email rather than relying on content to determine if it is spam or not. (STEVEN) does this by automatically replying to all emails it retrieves with a brief message asking the sender to validate the message they sent you. The sender validates it simply by hitting reply and send. This is a once only procedure per sender as once they have been validated it will never need to validate them again. People that send spam very rarely have a valid email address and hence (STEVEN) detects this and determines the email as SPAM. For mailing list you have subscribed to you will have to manually white list these senders once." What does everyone think? I know it's not a perfect solution, but if it cut out even 80% of the SPAM then it's doing miracles! I think that would be a big seller for Sambar too, a mail server that's anti-spam! Obviously with it directly in Sambar it would use the email accounts full name, so it would appear to come from each individual domain I run. If I want STEVEN to do that I need to run STEVEN on multiple different machines, one for each domain. If it's built into Sambar, my opinion is that each email account should have a flag turning this ability on or off (you wouldn't want this on auto-reply mailboxes, etc.). Plus then you could offer the anti-spam to clients as an optional add-on (for pay). -- Best regards, Dave ------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe please go to http://www.sambar.ch/list/
