I saw this little spam trick on SlashDot. If you want convenient
tracking of who shares your email address with spammers this
trick may be for you. It requires that you receive mail on your
server (as opposed to using fetchmail to retrieve it from a
server you don't control).
The mechanism is to set up your SMTP server to accept arbitrary
suffixes and send them to the correct account. I have done this
with my mailer (exim) but sendmail and others should have similar
capabilities.
> # From /etc/exim.conf
> # Delivers user.ANYTHING_HERE@vh224401 to user@vh224401
> spamforward:
> driver = smartuser
> suffix = .*
> new_address = ${local_part}
I would use this to give an email to someone I don't trust (a
mailing list, Amazon.com, etc.). Instead of giving them
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would give them
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The director will deliver this mail to the correct address, but
if I find that a spammer has picked it up and begun using it,
then I can filter it. I know from the To: address that Amazon
sold it to them.
Don
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Don Bindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
