On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Tracy wrote:

> A suggestion for some future version of XMail...
>
> At the moment, we have spammers.tab and spam-address.tab. Each of these has
> a single custom error response which can be set in server.tab.
>
> I would propose that it be possible to design a custom error response for
> each entry in spammers.tab and spam-address.tab.
>
> For example, if spammers.tab now contained:
>
> "24.35.80.74" "255.255.255.255"
> "24.122.1.155"        "255.255.255.255"
> "24.171.104.115"      "255.255.255.255"
> "24.186.212.40"       "255.255.255.255"
> "24.224.235.114"      "255.255.255.255"
>
> I would suggest the addition of an additional field to contain a custom
> error message, as so:
>
> "24.35.80.74" "255.255.255.255"       "550 5.5.1 Direct-to-MX mail not accepted
> from cablespeed.com addresses"
> "24.122.1.155"        "255.255.255.255"       "550 5.5.7 Your ISP has pissed me off -
> begone with you"
> "24.171.104.115"      "255.255.255.255"
> "24.186.212.40"       "255.255.255.255"       "550 5.9.7 If I ever see another
> optonline customer, it will be too soon"
> "24.224.235.114"      "255.255.255.255"
>
> The field would, of course, be optional - defaulting back to the value
> contained in server.tab (which, in turn, defaults back to a "hard coded"
> value in the source code). But it would provide a way to give specific
> information to specific rejections (such as pointing RoadRunner customers
> to RoadRunner's own page for handling spam, while pointing hinet.*
> customers to www.whitehouse.com or something equally obnoxious)....
>
> Just a thought...

Feature enanchements during this period are going on /dev/null. Pls hold
them for a while.



- Davide

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