On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 03:01:10PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:57:30 -0700 > > If any mail comes to me from an email address or domain that isn't on my > > pass list, it goes to /dev/null and an auto-response is sent to whatever > > return address the sender supplied. > > Neat! Tell me, what happens when the other person has a C-R setup, deep > sixes your challenge and fires off a challenge of his own. Oh, gee, guess > no-one gets to talk to one another since your mailers are too busy playing > email tag in an endless loop.
Of course, tmda works around this. If you send a mail, the receiver is whitelisted because you kindof expect a reply. > > Obviously, if the address is invalid, they never get the reply. > > Obviously if everyone ran your hermitware no one would ever get any email > ever again. See above. > > If the headers have been monkeyed with to the point that procmail can't > > process it, it goes to /dev/null. Non-conforming headers are a SURE sign > > that a mail is spam, because they are trying to get past your filters. > > > Which they do, with programs like SpamAssasin. > > Uh no, they don't. You really haven't used SA at all, have you? I guess he hasn't... SA works for me, though. > > I don't get ANY spam. It ALL goes straight to /dev/null. If anyone wants me > > to read their mail, then they MUST give me their real email address. > > Now tell me how much legitimate mail you've lost. He doesn't know. It's all nullified. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
