[CLUE-Talk] email filtering

[Brandon N]

dyndns handles the MX records, I have thought about what happens when
my machine is not available, but not sure what I can do about that,
it's up most of the time.  Perhaps if I set up a backup on someone
elses machine.  The aliasing is the part I haven't really researched
yet.  I'm moving next month, and it's not something I plan on doing
until after that.  But I really like the idea of trying to track where
my spam comes from.

Brandon
--- Michael Clark <mclark at techangle.com> wrote:
> 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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