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From: Toby Cubitt <tsc25@××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Greylisting idea
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:52:29
Message-Id: 20060829004817.GA15964@r2d2.localdomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Greylisting idea by Richard Fish
1 On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 05:38:37PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
2 > On 8/28/06, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > >Greylisting seems to be the most effective way of eliminating unwanted
4 > >email. The problem is that it also has the potential to eliminate a
5 > >legitimate email. Couldn't a feature be added to greylisting software
6 > >that dispatches an email to the sender of any email that is
7 > >temporarily rejected and doesn't retry within a certain amount of
8 > >time? The email could say something like, "Your message of {date} was
9 > >rejected as possible spam. Please call us at {phone_number}."
10 >
11 > att.biz accounts do something like this. It isn't a phone call, but
12 > "go to $website and enter $code to unblock your mail to $recepient."
13
14 TMDA (in portage) could be set up to do something like this, I
15 believe.
16
17 Toby
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21 Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
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24 email: toby@××××××××.org
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Re: [gentoo-user] Greylisting idea Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>