Mark-- A couple of suggestions:
Do the world a favor and simply hold, rather than bounce, unknown mail. Or drop it. But please don't penalize the rest of the world (spam or otherwise) by bouncing messages, most of which will probably end up getting sent to a spoofed return path. You might be interested in a little utility I wrote, tmda-ezplm (http://www.pongonova.net/tmda-ezplm), which would allow you to simply hold all incoming, non-whitelisted e-mail to your son in tmda-pending, and have a nightly e-mail send to yourself which would allow you to release and/or whitelist new senders that are known to you. As your son makes new friends, there's a strong likelihood that you will begin to see e-mail that has not been whitelisted already. If you decide to go this route, make sure to route the nightly pending list to your mailbox (I use procmail): .procmailrc ----------- :0 * (^Subject.*)Pending list: ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Brian On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:08:13PM -0400, Mark Horn wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to give my 6 year old son an email address. He wants to > send email to his grandma and some of his friends who have email. > > However, I'm *very* concerned with the incredible amount of CRAP > that he might receive. So I'm planning on using an extremely tight > TMDA configuration in order to keep crap out. > > My plan is to have an incoming filter with only one rule: > > from-file ~/.tmda/lists/white.manual > > That file would *ONLY* be edited manually by me or my wife. > Additionally, I'd set: > > ACTION_INCOMING = bounce > BOUNCE_TEXT_FILTER_INCOMING = "This email account only > accepts email from known addresses. Since your > address is not known, your email has been deleted. > > If you believe this to be an error, please send > email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > What I'd *like* to do is add one of MY dated addresses to the bounce > similar to using DATED_TEMPLATE_VARS. This is challenging because > in order to do that he'd have to have read access to my crypt_key. > I'm thinking of setting up a cron job to create one of my 24 hour > dated addresses and store it in a file that is world readable and > then use that. > > Does anyone have any better suggestions? Any other tips on how I > might make my son's email experiece positive? > > Thanks, > - Mark > _____________________________________________ > 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
