* Re: [gentoo-user] Greylisting idea
@ 2006-08-29 0:48 99% ` Toby Cubitt
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From: Toby Cubitt @ 2006-08-29 0:48 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 05:38:37PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 8/28/06, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Greylisting seems to be the most effective way of eliminating unwanted
> >email. The problem is that it also has the potential to eliminate a
> >legitimate email. Couldn't a feature be added to greylisting software
> >that dispatches an email to the sender of any email that is
> >temporarily rejected and doesn't retry within a certain amount of
> >time? The email could say something like, "Your message of {date} was
> >rejected as possible spam. Please call us at {phone_number}."
>
> att.biz accounts do something like this. It isn't a phone call, but
> "go to $website and enter $code to unblock your mail to $recepient."
TMDA (in portage) could be set up to do something like this, I
believe.
Toby
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