Howdy list, I've heard a few people say that their dated addresses are being harvested by spammers, effectively increasing the volume of spam in their pending queue. (AND the load on their mail server)
It occurs to me that qmail users might be able to make use of the QMAILQUEUE patch, and a custom script to check for incoming mail to dated addresses and reject any dated addresses that have expired before the SMTP conversation finishes. No expired dated addresses in the pending queue, and no expired dated emails in your mail server queue. I haven't implemented this myself yet, but I've scheduled some code time in the next few months for a different TMDA QMAILQUEUE project, and I might look into the feasability of such a check then. Sounds like a win-win idea to me. What does the list think? Good idea? Bad idea? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net We are actively looking for companies that do a lot of long distance faxing and want to cut their long distance bill by up to 50%. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more info. _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
