[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hmmm. Took me 5 seconds to see this problem. Did anyone ever apply > this "theory" to the real worlds? > > Or do I live in a completely different world? >
You see a problem where there should be none. The vendor should already be in the database. The new customer will be in the database after 1 bounce. Heck my isp (roadrunner) routinely takes up to 4 hours to deliver email so the "new customer" probably will never notice the extra delay. If you are going to impliment this you also need to tie this into a whitelist MySQL database so that the customer only has to do this once. IMHO the biggest issue with the proposed system is that spammers will soon realize that if they just respond to the bounce request, they will automatically be whitelisted and can then bomb your server with spam that gets past the filter. A possible better solution would be to one-bounce all unknown mail and then whitelist only if someone in your company replys to the message. That way regular customers will get thru quickly, new customers will receive a slight delay but will never know it. I would also recomend that you put some housekeeping on the database to delete addresses that has not been active in a period of time, say 6 months. Also, you should put in a auto-unlist feature if mail arrives from a whitelisted address with a spam score over a threshold to keep spammers from spoofing a whitelisted address. An additional benefit of the database is that it would be easy to use a web interface to remote manage the database for manual maintainance. Bill ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
