On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 09:00:57PM -0600, bob wrote: > It looks like there may need to be a more complex confiormation > mechanism needed soon, as it appears soone has written an > autoresponder tailored to TMDA (and is using a non-bogus email > address.)
I don't agree with your conclusion here. TMDA is doing exactly what it's supposed to do: confirm that the envelope-sender is real, and that the sender is who he says he is from an MTA perspective. Whether or not the envelope-sender is a spammer isn't really TMDA's job to determine. Once you have a legitimate confirmation (even from a spammer), TMDA *should* release the email. Then it's up to procmail, bogofilter, spamassassin, or whatever to determine if the *content* is spam. I've gotten a few of these emails in the past few days, too, but they don't trouble me: bogofilter clearly identifies the spam as a 419 scam, and circular files it. And if I wanted to be more proactive, since I have a confirmed envelope-sender, I can blacklist the source at the MTA level. So, I think the solution is simply to enable post-TMDA content filtering. If you need help with this, let me know, and I'll point you to some resources. -- Find my Techno-Geek Journal at http://www.codegnome.org/geeklog/ _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([email protected]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
