That's an interesting way to identify spam, but does it help you reduce the spam at all? Is there any way to "revoke" an address you have given out? In other words, once somebody starts spamming on an address you have given out, can you disable that address?
I ask because I've been doing a similar thing for 2 years now using an aliases file in Postfix. I started this as an experiment to find out if any vendors I deal with were selling their e-mail address database (apparently, most do not). Making an entry in the aliases file every time I need a new address can be cumbersome, but has the advantage of being able to "revoke" the address at a later date. C Jason White wrote:
One thing I like about qmail is the "dash alias" feature. If your email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED], qmail gives you a wildcard alias of [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, when I go to Amazon and buy something, I sign up with [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. Makes it *really* easy to see where your spam is coming from. Anyone know if this is easy to do with Postfix?
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