Jared-- The problem with mailing lists is that you're never guaranteed what the sender address will be, making it difficult to determine exactly what to whitelist. Trying to maintain filters with multiple mailing lists becomes nightmarish, as you end up having to open up your filter for subscription confirmations since you don't know what the sender will be. Sometimes, the sender of the subscription confirmation isn't the same as the sender for mailing list traffic, so your mailing list traffic ends up getting blocked anyway. Then it's back to the whitelists. At some point, you'll might discover you've suddently been unsubscribed, only to figure out the sender address for the mailing list has changed. Back to the whitelists you go...
A simpler approach is to simply use tmda keyword addresses as your subscription address. Send outbound e-mail using dated addresses to reduce/eliminate spam from e-mail harvesters. If for some reason your original subscription address gets spammed, create a new one. --Brian On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 12:11:49PM -0600, Jared wrote: > What's the easiest way to allow the mailing lists I'm subscribed to > through? For example, all the messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to > be allowed through. I tried putting in my ~/.tmda/filters/incoming: > > to-file ~/.tmda/lists/to_wild accept > > and then ~/.tmda/lists/to_wild contains > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > But it isn't allowing them through. Or, at least it isn't allowing the > ones through where the CC header contains the address. Is my only > option here to use regex on the headers? How do you guys do it? > > Also, can I just say > > tmda* > > To allow anything at any domain so long as it starts with tmda? Or does > that not work? (not saying I'm going to do that, but does it work?) > Similarly, does > > *tmda* > > match anything in either the name or the domain that contains tmda? Or > do all wildcard addresses have to have to have the @? > > -Jared > _____________________________________________ > tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users > _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
