[Pymilter] Just say OK to spammers
Stuart D. Gathman
stuart at gathman.org
Fri Jan 25 00:19:45 EST 2019
I came across this interesting video which recommends simply sending a
reply with "OK" to spam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq1uiinNM_Y
That is something a milter could do! With a few caveats. I'd rather not
reveal internal IPs by replying personally. My idea is to have a separate
server, authorized to send mail for my domain by my SPF and DKIM policies.
I would manually decide when to activate "Just say OK" for a spam by
"bouncing" it to a special address (similar to current special addresses
ban at example.com and spam at example.com that my milter implements). The
milter would add the spammer addresses to a list for the "Just say OK"
subsystem. The automatic OK replies will not have any internal IPs from a
manual reply. The milter will either reply by direct SMTP connection, or
only "localhost" would be shown as it feeds the reply back into sendmail.
Any comments?
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Stuart D. Gathman <stuart at gathman.org>
"Confutatis maledictis, flamis acribus addictis" - background song for
a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial.
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