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Re: [milter-greylist] Possible feature request?

2005-01-31 by Thomas Cameron

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack L. Stone" <jacks@...>
To: <milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com>; <milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: [milter-greylist] Possible feature request?


>
> At 10:11 AM 1.31.2005 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
>>
>>Howdy all -
>>
>>I am not a developer, but I imagine this would take quite a bit of work to
>>make happen.  I don't know how feasible it is.
>>
>>I wonder if it would be possible to automatically whitelist someone to 
>>whome
>>I sent e-mail.  In other words, if there is a recent message from me to
>>jowblow@..., when a response comes in from jowblow@...
>>milter-greylist would whitelist it and pass it along without delaying it.
>>
>>Is this something that could be done?
>>
>>Thomas
>>
>
> I'm no code man either, but I would think that is a good idea if the IP 
> was
> somehow matched to the domain. Otherwise, we would be exposed to forgery
> again.... I would think.
>
>
>
> Happy trails,
> Jack L. Stone

I was thinking that maybe the milter could take a quick peek in the maillog 
and see if the "In-Reply-To" header pointed to a real e-mail sent from this 
server and this sender...  That's how I (as a mere mortal) would start to 
think.

Thanks!
TC

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