On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 15:06:33 +0530, Viruthagiri Thirumavalavan said:
By default, john(_at_)example(_dot_)com is a generic mail address. It can
accept mails
from both human and websites. A user have to enable a setting called
"Restricted Mode" to instruct the system that it's a human-to-human mail
I'm really interested in seeing how you explain to a user how to turn on
"restricted mode" so they can get emails from their Aunt Sally regarding next
week's family reunion picnic - and have them actually understand it.
You also get to explain to the user how to tactfully apologize to Aunt Sally
for not being at last week's reunion because they weren't expecting the mail
to
be from Sally, but from her sister Susan, so Sally wasn't whitelisted.
Remember - from the user's point of view, your email software made them miss
an important mail.
That's assuming you even get this far. We didn't.
We designed and, I regret to say, implemented a big chunk of a system of this
general type about 15 years ago. We called it "autosecretary", and based it on
subaddresses, although that's just a detail.
Our hope was to appeal to some sort of power user who actually was able
to navigate these waters. But add to the problem list the fact that you
can't control the email client, especially for power users, and now you're
stuck trying to control it from an ancillary web interface. And good
luck with that.
Ned
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