Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 19:27:35 -0500 From: Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Nils Holland <nils@daemon.tisys.org> Cc: Colin Faber <cfaber@fpsn.net>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: You've Been Removed! Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020505192603.03dccc20@pop3s.schulte.org> In-Reply-To: <200205060013.g460DYn54044@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200205051832.OAA29652@matterhorn.pinn.net> <3CD59C0A.306681E3@fpsn.net> <20020505233756.A8532@daemon.tisys.org>
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At 05:13 PM 5/5/2002 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I think the lists should remain open. A perfect solution would be > to have the mail system keep a database of originators (From: and > the first Received: header). Whenever it sees an email from someone > not in the database it would request that the person acknowledge > that they really intended to send the email and, if they do, their > email goes through and they are added to the database (so it only > asks them once). > > I've been contemplating writing such a beast for myself, since 90% > of the email I receive these days is spam. I'm sure others have > written similar things so I'm wondering if there is a solution out > there already. At some point I'm going to write mine (as a standalone > MX relay so it could be tied into any system), when I have more time > available. Never used it personally, but this seems to do what you describe: /usr/ports/mail/tmda http://tmda.sourceforge.net/ > -Matt -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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