On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Neal Becker wrote:
> Any interest?
[snip]
> My concept is a central data-base: containing entries like
> (ericy: make.money.com awful.stuff.com)
> (alan: interramp.com awful.stuff.com)
> and the mail program -- perhaps sendmail, perhaps before -- would check
> this db and throw away mail that came from such sites, for each of the
> users. It would be smart to have the users be able to control their own
> entry, but not, of course, others.
Currently Exim can do some of this using
sender_{host,net}_{accept,reject} and sender_reject. These are being
extended in 0.57 with variations that reject at RCPT TO time - which
seems to be a more certain way of shutting up a remote mailer.
In addition, there is in 0.57 a new option of running a system filter
file before any directing or routing is done. This allows you to throw
away a message based on any criteria that a filter can test.
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