I will. For my personal mail I have a catch-all account. When I sign up for paypal for example I use paypal@<mypersonaldomain.com>. If I start to get spam on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just start sending mail sent to that address into a black hole.
Note: I'm not suggesting that Paypal sells address's. Although this method is a good way to find out who does. Steve Evans SDSU Foundation -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David, Andy Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 5:11 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Single Use E-Mail? I dont think this will reduce unwanted email. -----Original Message----- From: David Hekimian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 5:11 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Single Use E-Mail? I'd like to allow my users to create a single use e-mail address to help reduce unwanted e-mail. - User mailbox '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' This user can create any new e-mail address by adding a suffix (with a special char '-' for example) such as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. All suffixes are by default allowed. There would need to be a method that would allow the user to blacklist a specific suffix. My idea would be to create an EventSink for Exch 2000/2003 that when a message is addressed to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' it would parse the LHS of the @ and then do a lookup in a table to see if the blacklist existed. If it did, then it would return a '550 Mailbox does not exist' error code. If it does not exist, then the To: Field would be rewritten to strip out the '-suffix' and deliver the mail to the intended recipient '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Questions: 1. Does something already exist today that does this? An event sink? 3rd Party App (MailMarshal, GFI MailEssentials)? Freeware on Linux, etc? 2. I've already coded the basic functionality for the database look and web interface to modify the blacklist but the Event Sink is causing me some issues. Anyone have experience in Event Sink programming willing to jump in an help with the development? 3. Is this a crazy idea and I should just abandon it? - David _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
