On 11/26/2018 02:33 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
I think that fear is unfounded
Please don't mistake my laziness as fear. I simply am not motivated enough to construct a solution that will harvest outgoing recipient addresses.
I might be interested and motivated enough to (eventually) construct something to check against an LDAP address book. — I've been pontificating creating an LDAP address book anyway. So if something else can make use of it, all the better. Especially if said something else is directly related to email (filtering).
IOW, if you build a whitelist containing just the addresses your outgoing mail is addressed to and periodically trim it to retain only addresses that stuff has been sent to in the last 24 months years I predict that your list size will stabilise despite user churn simply because most people's address lists don't change much from year to year.
That all makes sense and I tend to agree with it. It's just not what I'm currently pontificating doing.
And, of course, mail concerning online purchases is 99% incoming, so the addresses on it will never get into this type of whitelist.
I initially think the same thing about address books. But some MUAs have an option (maybe on by default) that automatically add senders and / or outgoing recipients to their address book. I prefer to manually manage my address book. — But that's just me and I do realize that I'm odd like that.
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