On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 07:23:07PM +0200 or thereabouts, Bart Symons wrote:
How do you do that, a time dated e-mail address?
There are 2 programs that I know of that do this. One is called qdated, and is made for use with qmail. It is located here: http://www.palomine.net/qdated/ This is what I use, because it is lightweight, modular, and fast. I call the program from the command line with Mutt. The other is the more popular TMDA (tagged message delivery agent). This project was initially started for qmail servers, but has been expanded for use with just about every MTA, including Exim, Postfix, Sendmail, etc. It is run by python, and allows some pretty nifty configurations, designed to keep spammers away, not only by time dated email addresses, but also by many other configurations. It is more heavy duty, and will do more things than qdated. For example, you can set the date by hour, day, or whatever, or you can have certain addresses or keys only good for certain people or mail lists, etc. It also can be used with Window client MUAs, like Outlook, Mozilla, Eudora, by using the companion little program tmda-ofmipd. It has really taken off over the past year or two, and is constantly being improved. You can find it here. Heck, I just may move over to it now, so I can use other MUAs in addition to Mutt, as well as the window users on my network. <g> http://tmda.net/ Enjoy!
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 17:54, gary wrote:
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:45:16AM -0500 or thereabouts, Paul Benjamin wrote:
I have been following this mailing list for about three months with this email address now and I got my first spam on Friday. It was Nigerian 419 scam of course. I had four or five back in January at my old email address where I lived then. I learned to use a trow away address on mailing lists because sooner or later the scum will find a way of harvesting them.
On an ezmlm list manager, which SuSE is, I usually use a time dated email address, because ezmlm goes by the envelope sender rather than the From: address, when you sign up for the list. My system bounces about 20 a day because the time dated From: has expired by the time the address has been -- Gary