Tony Hoyle wrote:
Don't put this into spamassassin.-----Original Message-----
From: Ronald Wiplinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 21 November 2002 13:50
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SAtalk] Is to identify yourself by return email necessary in
the future?
I just come accross the article at http://slate.msn.com/?id=2074042 which describes that each new sender must first himself identify by answering a return message. I love that idea!
Is such a module available within SpamAssassin?
I would like the picture methode, rather, than the just reply methode.
Won't work... what about receipts from online transactions? Mailing lists?The last thing I would want as a mailing list admin is to be bombarded with these things - I'd probably just blacklist the senders permanently. This isn't really anything I'd expect SA to have anything to do with - SA just rates emails for 'spamminess' it doesn't do anything about them... that's for your MTA to sort out. Tony
keep focus on the intention of spamassassin.
Some of these email confirmation applications work better than others. My limited experience with TMDA is that it's not very good when you look at it from a Social perspective.
TMDA has two HUGE flaws (probably more).
1) TMDA works by sending a confirmation to EVERY email sent to the recipient. This really pisses off a lot of people. Maybe you think it's good for you, but a lot of people will just flip you off in a big way. It's arrogant.
2) TMDA is not very compatable with procmail and therefore can not be conditionally implimented (confirm only high scoring spam). If you read the docs and hang on the tmda-filter mailing list it's pretty apparent that TMDA is supposed to replace procmail and if you subscribe to a mailing list you are expected to filter this out on your own. Very hard to do for a POP account that doesn't have direct access to the server procmailrc files. Again, it's arrogant.
I've tried repeatedly to impliment TMDA and have consistently ended up with the following conclusion: If you want it done in a compatable method that is more Socially acceptable then tmda-filter is definitely not the right solution.
I've heard claim that it can be done, but not easily. And it is unclear how it handles mailing lists and mail daemons. Perhaps if they had better documentation on how to do this it would help.
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