Hi,
Some people already do that on the web : I've already received
some of these mails when their owner had received a fake email with my
"From" inside. This could be, i think, no too bad. It gives you a url with
a special form (with presumably your email inside) so that you can
"confirm" you are not a fake the first time you send an email to them.
The problem is there are more and more viruses out there that fake
the From field makind this approach not that good... Should white-list
filtering be based on mail relaies(sp?) too ?
Concerning the online forms and al, you could setup a very special and
private address for these thing to pass through your filtering (with some
kind of pass-once-but-not-twice-here filter)
I have personnaly been thinking of issuing custom "From" addresses (with
the help of postfix "+" special character), changing automagically every
time i send an email. But this looks really like a lot of work...
Cheers,
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003, Karl Dubost wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have read
>
http://impressive.net/people/gerald/2000/12/spam-filtering.html
>
> I have SA 2.60 already installed on my machine for a while a threshold
> around 4.2 and still receives a lot of spam. I'm refusing any kind of
> ".exe". I'm on a macintosh. But too many spams are reaching my INBOX
>
> For example on October 26, I still have 56 messages of Spam (on
> hundreds) which have hit my INBOX. The rest of the spam is going right
> away to /dev/null, I'm not checking it anymore. Lost of time to save 1
> mail on 1000.
>
>
> So I thought about a white-list system.
>
> 1. First mail: Automatic reply with an address to a Web Form
> 2. The person has to identify her/himself
> 3. I check the list and add them if necessary in my whitelist.
>
> I have seen at least one issue. Online Forms for booking, buying
> products which have an unpredictable address when they reply.
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
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