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From: Victor Star
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 6:45 AM
The major benefit for me is that whenever I have to give in
some email on sites requiring subscription I just make up one
like this...@mydomain.com. Now if I start getting spam to
this specific address I know where spammers got it from. And
I can turn it off any time later.
So it's a great setup for one-time emails that requires no
maintenance and just works.
Is there really no way to implement this with Courier? I've
switched to Courier just recently for my mail and learned to
appreciate it's power already. Now I feel so splendid that I
just refuse to believe it's impossible :) Rather I just think
that I'm missing something in the mountains of the docs
surrounding it.
As you've probably already noticed, there's a neat way of accomplishing much
the same thing rather better with Courier:
1. Instead of using arbitrary "this...@mydomain.com" addresses, use
addresses of the form "myus...@mydomain.com".
2. Create a file $HOME/.courier-x-default with delivery instructions (e.g.
send it to a "Junk Mail" folder).
3. Enjoy!
You're protected against arbitrarily addressed messages, because unless the
address has the "myuser-x" prefix, it won't get delivered, but you can also
filter based on where you provided the address (one or two senders that I
care about have been known to use third-party mailing services, so I can't
filter simply on the basis of sender).
Malc.
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