Martin Gregorie wrote: > Its easy enough to create a list all desirable correspondents, at least > if your MTA has the equivalent of Postfix's 'always_bcc' directive. > > I use this to send a copy of all outbound mail to a local mailbox. Then > periodically a cronjob scans and erases the mailbox content, adding the > To: address(es) to a list of correspondents. IME this is safe because > its quite unlikely that you'll ever need to blacklist anybody you've > sent mail to.
Oh I wish that were true in general! I have one user that I help with email things and they like to respond to spammers. They shout, they rant, they rave. I guess it is a catharsis for them and they feel better afterward. I have not been able to convince them that this is a worthless thing to do in the best cases and a bad thing to do in the worse cases. > In my case I keep the correspondents list in a database. I use a custom > Perl SA module to access the database and a CORRESPONDENTS_LIST rule to > trigger it and add negative points to incoming mail email with a > matching From: address. > > I also have a tool for weeding undesirables from the correspondent list > because spamming addresses can creep onto the list, but its very > infrequently needed. It is a clever idea! I might add something similar to my own setup. :-) Bob
