Jason> One thing I like about qmail is the "dash alias" feature. Jason> If your email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED], qmail gives you a Jason> wildcard alias of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Christopher> That's an interesting way to identify spam, but Christopher> does it help you reduce the spam at all? There is a pretty neat package called "TMDA" or "Tagged Mail Delivery Agent" which uses the dash alias feature of qmail and postfix to manage whitelists of email senders. The first time someone sends you an email, TMDA fires off an autoreply to them, from an address like [EMAIL PROTECTED] The autoreply says something like this: I get a lot of spam. You sent me an email. To distinguish yourself from a spambot, please reply to this message. After doing that, you will be added to my personal list of legitimate email senders. Sorry for the inconvenience. >From what I hear from people that run TMDA, they receive very little spam... mainly because they only accept mail from a whitelist. It's a little hassle for first-time senders, and it probably not appropriate for people who do lots of one-off email transactions (like ebay sellers). But for normal personal mail, it does a good job. See http://tmda.net for more info. Alan . -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
