I'm wondering if having timestamps in the address lists would be handy for expiring entries in the lists. Here is an example scenario:

You have two whitelist files. One file is manually updated with addresses of people you know and want to correspond with. The second file is auto-updated using the CONFIRM-APPEND option. This second file tends to fill up over time with addresses of people you corresponded with only once and may never hear from again. With timestamps in the list, you could write a script to go through the file and remove any entry with a timestamp greater than a certain age. You could write the script to do as much or as little checking as you want before removing an entry. Any address that you know you want to keep you would move to the first whitelist file.

To make this useful, TMDA would have to update the timestamp whenever mail was received from or sent to an address in a list file. I don't know if it's convenient for TMDA to do this or if it would have to go out of its way. This behaviour could be restricted only to the list files you want with a new configuration option.

Opinions anyone?

Andrew


Jason R. Mastaler wrote:
Roderick Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

It would be handy if any automatic addition of an address to a list
would put a comment on the same line indicating the time and date of
the addition, along with why it was added (i.e. because of
tmda-pending release, or the user confirmed, etc.)

This information is already recorded in LOGFILE_INCOMING, no?


Can these files take a comment on the same line as an address?

Yes, see http://tmda.net/config-filter.html. But not in conjunction
with the auto-database flags.


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