At 10:50 AM -0400 7/18/02, Clement Ross imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: >Paul List Hess wrote: > >> At 8:18 PM -0400 7/17/02, Bill Cole wrote: >> For users wanting to get mail from servers that I don't wish to >>whitelist (for various reasons) I instead create a secret address >>for them that the user can give out that bypasses all of the >>blocking. > >Hum, how do ou do that? It's in the router I suppose?
I have router records that map 'tagged' addresses. Like this: <bill.*@blacklisted> = bill.* <bill.dice> = spamtrap <bill.techies> = spamtrap <bill.*> = bill The last line allows me to invent 'bill.whatever' addresses ad hoc, and have them all funnel into 'bill'. The first line makes it so that if a blacklisted host happens to try mailing one of them, it is rewritten as if it is not blacklisted. The middle 2 lines are addresses that various bad actors have passed along promiscuously or which have been scraped off of websites. For example, my address was available on a resume at Dice.com for a while, so that address is quite toasted. On the other hand, it was not publicly available through techies.com, but the slimeballs there sold it like a cute boy in Bangkok. (the above example is not exactly what my router says, it's missing a dozen lines of spamtraps and the tag delimiter is different, but you get the idea...) >> For users that don't like my policy, I turn off all spam blocking >>to their address. In a couple of months they come running back to >>me begging for the blocking again. > >How can you turn off spam blocking only to a few addresses? One at a time. What I do with my postmaster account is this: <postmaster%*@blacklisted> = postmaster-blocked That makes postmaster for any domain I host route to 'postmaster-blocked' if the mail comes from a blacklisted IP. The 'postmaster-blocked' account autoresponds with a message about the blocking and dumps the mail into a folder that I occasionally peek at. You could be simpler about it of course, and just route user%domain@blacklisted = user -- Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
