Re: Feedback and a couple of enhancement ideas

I am certainly interested. We are using the HTML queue reports, and I 
would certainly welcome a better display :)

Sam Vilain wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've been using ASK with enhanced tabular HTML queue reports for a while 
> now.  I've been finding them fantastic.  If anyone expresses interest I 
> will post my modifications.
> 
> Secondly, I have thought of a few (possibly old) ideas for additional 
> methods of reducing unnecessary spam challenges;
> 
> 1. if the MTA that sent the mail is the same as any of the IP addresses 
> that the MX record for the mail being set to resolves, then 
> auto-whitelist the address, unless it was on the blacklist.  This 
> feature would have a lifetime; it is possible that eventually the 
> obvious (non-trivial) holes that exist in this idea would be exploited 
> by spammers.  However, this would mean that in the meantime, people who 
> are SMTP-AUTH'ing like everyone should be :-) would not be sent annoying 
> e-mails by ASK.
> 
> 2. if ASK can be pointed at a DBM file containing a list of sent Message 
> IDs, then:
>   - automatically respond to other ASK messages for messages we know we 
> sent sent
>   - drop confirmation messages that do not contain a References: header 
> to known sent Message IDs
> 
> 3. publish the above as a best practice method for spam blockers, so 
> that if Challenge/Response spam blocking explodes, we won't be left in a 
> muddle of challenge/response madness worse than the original problem.
> 
> If you can change the inevitable "why the hell are you spamming me" 
> message that many, often gifted, SysAdmins will send you to a "well, use 
> SMTP Auth, and as you can see, this is a solution for all", then that is 
> definitely a good thing.
> 


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