Re: auto-accept friends of friends

On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 08:35:07AM -0800, Chris Wilkes wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 11:29:25AM +0000, Ketil Froyn wrote:
> > For instance, when someone I trust sends a mail to a group of people
> > (with several recipients in both To: and Cc: fields) I'd like to
> > automatically accept mail from others that reply later.
> 
> I suppose QC could keep track of Message-Ids for this purpose.  That
> would be handy, especially if you send out an email to your friends, one
> of them responds and gets a "you must confirm this message" email.
> 
> However then I would have to link up my outgoing mail server and the one
> that accepts email.

Not necessarily.  You should be able configure your MUA to generate
Message-IDs with a specific host part, e.g.
<[email protected]>, and then tell qconfirm-check-mid to
check for @0123456.mid.ladro.com.

> > Any suggestions? Any gaping holes in this idea that can't be closed?

qconfirm currently cannot do that automatically, but it sounds useful.
What needs to be done is to put the Message-ID of the mail message sent
to you and other addresses into .qconfirm/conf/QCONFIRM_MID,
qconfirm-check-mid then would be able recognize follow-ups, and to tell
qconfirm-check to allow delivery.

Regards, Gerrit.