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Re: greylisting

2003-12-04 12:51:49
Toen ik Justin Gombos kietelde, kwam er dit uit:
Ruud:

As a proof-of-concept, I am developing a greylist-model
with procmail. Here I present the first step, which is
not very practical but you might want to learn from it.

What's the idea behing greylisting? 

google: greylisting SMTP


For a second, I thought it was starting to solve a problem I have
where people ignore my mail-followup-to header, and reply to me 
and the list, causing me to get two copies.

When I get around to it, I want to write a script that will take both
messages (any order), deliver the list reply to the inbox for that
list, and attach the personal one to a quick explanation on what the
mail-followup-to header means.  I'm just not sure whether that will
piss off a lot of people.

Adding a Reply-To:header to your list-messages will also help. 
AFAIK, the Mail-followup-to:header is not followed by many 
mail-clients.

The direct message can arrive first. You can deduce 
from the headers that the reply did not come through 
the list. But then, it might still be a personal reaction. 

So keep the message-id-cache of both list and direct messages 
in separate caches, and check both for each concerning message.
Once the second message arrives, reply something helpful to the 
From:address (unless there is a Reply-To that doesn't point 
to the list).

-- 
Affijn, Ruud

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