[CLUE-Talk] email filtering

[Michael Clark]

Brandon

Do you mean that you want to run a full blown email server, for just your
personal domain, on your home machine??

First of all, you have to have the MX records setup correctly for your
domain (I have no idea how dyndns.org does DNS)

Second of all, you have to consider what happens to the mail when you are
not connected (could be a router, could be your phone line, etc)

I have setup sendmail to handle virtual domains, with the
/etc/virtusertable (and a 'makemap hash virtusertable < virtusertable.db'),
but that is a lot of work for one domain.

I would probably use /etc/aliases to setup each alias individually (can you
use wild-cards in /etc/aliases??), but you still have to have a mail server
(sendmail, postfix, qmail) to negotiate with other smtp servers.  I am only
familiar with sendmail, which is a beast, so I can't comment on the others.

hope that helps

mc

Brandon N wrote:

> While on the subject, here is something I've been thinking about for a
> while now:
> I have an always on DSL connection, and a Domain name through
> dyndns.org
> I would like to be able to set up my email, preferably with anything
> other that sendmail, to accept mail from any address at my domain,
> basically *@colorado.dyndns.org  and put it all in one mailbox, unless
> a specific user exists.  Once that is set up, I can filter my email
> based on who it is sent to.
>
> Why do all this?
> To track spam.  if Ebay want my email address, I give them
> bneill-ebay at colorado.dyndns.org   Now any email that I recieve to this
> address I know they got the address from ebay.  It would be interesting
> to find out exactly where people are getting my address from.
>
> Brandon
>
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