On Monday 17 March 2003 13:45, Gre7g Luterman wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:08:48 -0500, Jesse Guardiani
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (by way of Jesse Guardiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>
> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Although interesting at first glance, I don't think this idea is
> fully-baked.  :(
>
> If I send someone mail, they will get my dated address and will most
> likely assume it to be my regular address (albeit a long one).  If
> they put this address in their address book so they can send me
> correspondence later, I will need it to work like this:
>
> * e-mails sent within the address' expiry should go through
> unchallenged
>
> * the first e-mail after expiry should be challenged, and then the
> sender's address should be added to my list
>
> * all future e-mails should be unchallenged because they are not in my
> list (although the address they are using is expired!).
>
> By dropping mail to expired addresses, I am sabotaging this chain of
> events.

Yup. I agree. Not a very good solution at all. I'll have to think
about it a bit more, but I currently don't see how it would do
any good.

Thanks.


>
> Gre7g.
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