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On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 23:45 +0200, Ramon van Alteren wrote: |
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> > Can anybody recommend me tool which is able to correctly handle |
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> these cases? |
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> > To be honest, I don't see a way to realize this feature... :( |
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> > Ability to protect all accounts at our email domain is good to have, |
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> but |
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> > personal-only tool is acceptable too. (I use qmail, if this is |
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> important.) |
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> > |
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> I would recommend not to implement such a tool. |
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> 1) I wouldn't send you mail anymore if you made me jump through hoops |
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> to |
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> confirm that me is actually I. |
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> 2) I personally think it's a stupid way of dealing with the problem |
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> 3) I can't see any way to get them to work with lists |
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Be that as it may, many people use this "circle the wagons" approach to |
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spam management. I used it for a long time, with good success, although |
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I had problems with things such as automated replies to online orders |
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and the like. I had very little problem with people refusing to confirm |
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their addresses. I used a bypass cookie in my address (e.g. |
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fmouse-n44xyz@×××.com) as my Reply-To address which allowed replies |
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through without encountering the confirmation process. Only people who |
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cold-emailed me got the confirmation request, which was politely worded |
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and fairly innocuous. A few technophobic folks were put off by it, |
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mainly by misunderstanding the clearly worded confirmation request and |
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thinking their email had been identified as spam. |
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Check out Tagged Message Delivery Agent (TMDA). It's a python-based |
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system that may do what you need. |
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