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From: Daniel L. Miller (no email)
Date: Tue Jul 01 2008 - 14:18:22 EDT
Robert Spencer wrote:
> On 6/27/08, Jorey Bump <> wrote:
>
>> Charles Marcus wrote, at 06/27/2008 10:44 AM:
>>
>>> On 6/27/2008, Robert Spencer () wrote:
>>>
>>>> but I make up addresses on the fly and it's not convenient to list
>>>> them all and all the addresses for that domain need to come to me
>>>> anyway.
>>>>
>>> Why not just use plus-addressing... this way you get the best of both
>>> worlds (can 'make up addresses on the fly' *and* get proper recipient
>>> validation)...
>>>
>> Plussed addresses have caveats: Some sites have broken email address
>> validation routines that won't accept them, and others will strip it
>> when they send, anyway.
>>
>
> That sucks! But this all has made me rethink my naming scheme.
>
> I original wanted unique names so that I could trace out who was
> spamming me, I only ever had one real email address that was spammed
> (the ftp site I used that address for published there logs on the
> net). So there is not much tangible benefit to using unique names,
> apart from making filtering slightly easier.
>
> Unfortunately that benefit is grossly outwayed by the huge amount of
> spam I received to non-existent email addresses and I mean huge, one
> of the reasons I moved to my new server is that spamassassin's DB on
> the old server grew to consume half of my file system quota (I
> couldn't understand were all my free space until I did a backup on to
> my desktop, cPanel doesn't show hidden files or folders in it's disk
> use graph).
>
> If I could figure out a way to slowly migrate away from my present
> setup, I would. I'm thinking something like a username blacklist,
> whitelist and queued list. I can't just grep my mail backups, as some
> addresses have never received mail, e.g. password recovery addresses.
>
> Another option is to grep my mail backups, add the addresses to my
> user list and reroute all the remaining mail to my gmail account, but
> don't I then run the risk of having my server blacklisted as a spam
> relay?
>
Your addressing scheme appears to be an attempt to "re-invent the
wheel". Which of course you are certainly welcome to do - everybody has
their own opinion on the proper number of spokes...
There are a number of anti-spam tools that will significantly reduce
your administrative overhead. Everybody has their own tastes -
personally I enjoy using ASSP.
-- Daniel
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