Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Jon Ellis wrote:
>
>
>>It seems the only solutions are, control your own mail server (a la Curt) or
>>change your address if it gets infected. In the short term i've changed my
>>address. In the long term i'm going to work on using an iAppli to access a
>>different server where i can use effective filtering.
>
> Can't this other server, with effective filtering, just
> forward the mail to another address? In that case, create
> <mykeitai@mydomain.com>, or whatever, and forward it to
> <adksfjlaskdhfp97u34q2tihn2jwnahu@docomo.ne.jp>. When you start getting
> spam at the latter address, either change it, or see if you can't set up
> some filtering so that only your server can send to that address. (I'm
> not sure if Docomo can filter based on envelope sender or not, but if it
> can, just use a consistent envelope sender for all e-mail going to your
> keitai and keep the original From: lines, which are what are displayed
> as the sender on the phone.)
The server is question runs Bayesian spam filters and i have the ability to
setup procmail like filter on top of that. One thing that i'm not allowed to
do is to setup rules that automatically forward mail outside of the network.
The IMAP part of this is that it's possible to access the server via Secure
IMAP (IMAP over SSL). And besides, an iAppli that let people access IMAP mail
servers (even if it is via a proxy) seems inherently useful... well, at least
to me.
Thanks for all the input
j.
Received on Tue Jul 8 06:26:32 2003