At 04 Feb 2003 20:59:55 -0800, Photocon wrote: > > Im wondering if theres a simple way to add those few spammers who > use the same address to qmails 'badmailfrom' or 'blackholedsender' > file.
Not built into TMDA, but it wouldn't be difficult to do some custom scripting to accomplish this. One way would be to write a script to analyze the contents of LOGFILE_INCOMING. A second would be to parse messages in the ~/.tmda/pending directory. A third might be to take a "snapshot" of ~/.tmda/responses at the same time each day to build up a history of which addresses TMDA is responding to. I personally think this is a waste of time for the reasons Mark described though. If you are interested in blacklisting, you might combine TMDA with one of the more reputable RBL services instead (to let them to the blacklisting work for you). > I suppose this should really be a two fold request: first, to count > the number of times an address has sent an email and not replied (2? > 3? 5?), and two, then add them to the 'badmailfrom'. Every user will want different behavior, so it's better to write your own scripts to do this I think. It should be pretty easy to do however. > Is this really a viable option to prevent repeat emails from the > same address, or am I barking up the wrong tree? It might be an interesting research project to analyze the percentage of ``repeat offenders'' vs. ``one-time offenders'', but otherwise I don't think you'll get much bang for your buck with this approach. I'd bet dollars to donuts that one-time offenders outweigh the other. > Secondly, is there a way to tell in any of the current tmda-scripts > if a user has replied? LOGFILE_INCOMING will reveal this. Also, by looking in the pending directory, you can distinguish still pending messages from confirmed and released messages by the filename's suffix, e.g, 1043904813.87883.msg:3,R (3,R indicates released by tmda-pending) 1044361697.60985.msg:3,C (3,C indicates released by sender confirmation) 1042859694.61073.msg (no suffix means not yet confirmed or released) _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
