> > As part of my efforts to track and control spam, I bought a domain and > created a unique alias to give to every distinct company with which I > do business. For example, the address I gave to my bank might be > [EMAIL PROTECTED], while the one I gave to an online bookseller > might be [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I hope to use this to cut down on spam and phishing attempts, because > I could identify legitimate mail by virtue of having the correct > sender address (or at least domain) and recipient. That is, mail from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] is very likely mail > from my bank, but mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to that same address > is not. Likewise, mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > is invalid. > > Is there any way to set up spamassassin rules to mark messages on this > basis? Apologies in advance if this has come up before, but I had a > hard time thinking of keywords to search the archives.
Just let spamassassin do it's job. Yet, there are options like checking the sending domains for spf records and other such identifiers and putting in appropriate entries in a .cf file in the correct place on your server(s). What else would you want to do? ...surely not blanket whitelisting eh? - rh
