On 2004-02-07, Karsten M. Self penned: > > > Pre-filter incoming mail against viruses, spam, and spoofed headers. > Restrict challenges to mail which isn't highly likely to use spoofed > addresses.
I definitely recommend this approach. After doing this and setting up my whitelists, I average fewer than 10 messages a week that get trapped in my pending queue. Ten is probably a gross overestimation; there are many weeks when I don't see anything at all. Most of these are order statuses (stati?) from online merchants whose email addresses I didn't anticipate[1]; a few are spam that my baysian filter isn't yet smart enough to recognize. And I only block certain attachments, certain binary signatures, and things that spamassassin has flagged. I'm sure that a better effort at configuration on my part would drop this even farther. [1] [rant]Why, why, *why* is it that most online merchants don't simply tell you, at the time of the order placement, which email address they will be using for correspondence? And furthermore, why, why, *why* do some of them use multiple addresses, sometimes from different domains, some of which have absolutely no obvious relationship to the store? [/rant] -- monique _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
