[TriLUG] Postfix v QMail ?

[Christopher L Merrill]

That's an interesting way to identify spam, but does it help you
reduce the spam at all?  Is there any way to "revoke" an address
you have given out?  In other words, once somebody starts spamming
on an address you have given out, can you disable that address?

I ask because I've been doing a similar thing for 2 years now using
an aliases file in Postfix.  I started this as an experiment to find
out if any vendors I deal with were selling their e-mail address
database (apparently, most do not).  Making an entry in the aliases
file every time I need a new address can be cumbersome, but has the
advantage of being able to "revoke" the address at a later date.

C


Jason White wrote:
> One thing I like about
> qmail is the "dash alias" feature.  If your email address is
> joe at foo.com, qmail gives you a wildcard alias of joe-*@foo.com.  So,
> when I go to Amazon and buy something, I sign up with
> joe-amazon at foo.com, etc.  Makes it *really* easy to see where your
> spam is coming from. Anyone know if this is easy to do with Postfix?



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