Scott-- A bit off the subject, but the problem you are seeking resolution for is what has finally led me to turn off auto-confirmation. Too many spams seem to be coming from spoofed addresses, and I know I hate to get an automated response from a virus checker that thinks I sent a viral e-mail when in fact my address was simply lifted from someone's Outlook address book. I now use TMDA solely for generating hashed addresses (even these are beginning to become suspect as SA now has a couple of rules that tags TMDA hashed addresses as spam) and maintaining a whitelist. Most of my spam is now handled by RBLs and SA; those that end up in the pending queue are simply held instead of confirmed, and usually consist of spams that have slipped by my SA threshold.
Instead of sending these failed delivery messages to /dev/null, you should consider analyzing them to determine if innocent parties are receiving confirmation notices for e-mail they did not send. If so, a better solution to your problem might be to install additional anti-spam measures in front of TMDA, such as RBL checking or SA, and use the TMDA confirmation feature as sort of a "last resort" for the ones that slip through. I think TMDA is a great idea, and Jason, Tim and others have produced a fine anti-spam measure. I'm just beginning to think that passive rather than active spam measures might be more appropriate in some situations. --Brian On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 07:52:02PM -0700, Scott Chapman wrote: > TMDA has reduced my junk mail so much it's fabulous. > > Now it's generating some (not terribly many) "Mail delivery failed: > returning message to sender" messages because the challenges it is > generating are not deliverable. Can I configure it so that these don't > come to me at all? > > Thanks! > Scott > > _____________________________________________ > tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users > _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
