On 10-Jun-2009, at 01:24, Gabriel Hahmann wrote:
I'm looking for a tool that can handle confirmation emails with
captcha and that works with postfix.
The idea is, when somebody sends me an email and this address have
never sent me any other mail, automatically the sender receives a
message with a web link, explaining that is the first that it sends
mail to me and need to authenticate.
This is known as a "Prove You Love Me" scheme and is, essentially,
offloading your spam problems onto everyone else who sends you mail.
You will find a LOT of people are pissed off by these PYLM emails, and
will not reply.
The link on the message is exclusive to this user, so he clicks on the
link and a web page appears and the only thing that he needs to do is
put a captcha that was generated and click OK, and the server can
accept that mail and all other mails based on this confirmation.
And That will piss off many MORE users. On the one hand, this will
reduce your email intake dramatically. On the other hand, not in a
good way.
I would never click on the link in the first place, and if I did and
was presented with a captcha, I'd just add your server to my internal
blacklist and forget you existed.
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