There are systems that do this already... I was wanting to implement something like that at one point, till I read this, which convinced me it wasn't that great of an idea:
http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/329.html#CR More info, if interested, is at: http://spamlinks.net/filter-cr.htm#issues-harmful http://spamlinks.net/prevent-secure-backscatter.htm On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 13:31 +0000, Simon Gray wrote: > Hi all, > > > > Been thinking about this a while and wondered if anyone else has any > thought on this? > > > > The idea is that on incoming email a secretary (perhaps within the > lmtp daemon?) will have a white/black list. If the email is from a > white list then it gets delivered as normal, if black list the > secretary places the email in to a ‘junk’ folder. If the email is from > an unknown address it places the email in to quarantine folder (which > is still accessible via imap), sends a message to the sending asking > to confirm their identity. (Perhaps simply reply to a message or click > a website link; similar to joining a mailing list). After the sender > confirms the email the sender is then added to the white list and the > original email is unlocked and moved to the users’ inbox. The > secretary could also handle the delivery to specific mailboxes etc… > > > > Arguably, you could simply have a separate program sitting in front of > dbmail which handles this, then passes the email on via lmtp – however > the unlocking phase (after a user has confirmed an email address) > could prove troublesome. It would be a ‘nice to have’ feature and it > seems a logical place to have an extension like this. (Obviously this > would be a per-user configurable option). Plus I’m sure it would cut > out a lot of UCE/spam even though this isn’t exactly dbmail’s job. > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > S > > > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail-dev mailing list > Dbmail-dev@dbmail.org > http://twister.fastxs.net/mailman/listinfo/dbmail-dev -- Jesse Norell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kentec Communications, Inc.
