Chuck Homic <chuck@vvisions.com> writes:
TMDA looks interesting, but despite all the propaganda for whitelist-only, I really don't want to risk losing a contact because someone didn't understand, or bother to reply to the autogenerated response.
Yeah, I guess I look at it a different way -- if they're too incompetent to hit "reply" in their email client, I probably don't want to talk to them anyway...
As it is now, my junk is routed to a junk spool that I check on a somewhat-weekly basis, just to make sure I didn't accidentally junk a message from a potential customer, or other business contact that's just lame enough to send a spam-looking message from his Yahoo account. (Yeah, it happens!!)
With TMDA you can use the tmda-pending utility to show a list of messages which are unconfirmed. Some people seem to like having cron send them a daily list of messages in the unconfirmed list. (or, perhaps a list of new messages in the pending directory...) So, it's not like you never get the chance to see the message. You can look in the list and say, oh...release that message for me. (etc.)
Spamassassin looks cool, but I don't admin the machine where my mail is processed, so it may be a while before I can set that up. ;) (It's actually a Redhat 5.1 system that hasn't been touched since Redhat 5.1 was brand new. We've only installed security upgrades.)
Yeah, I haven't tried it, but I've also heard good things about spamassassin. ttyl, -- Josh Huber