SpamAssassin at SMTP time with exim

Wed May 8 00:43:44 PDT 2002

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 12:02:39AM -0700, Roy S. Rapoport wrote:
> On Tue, 7 May 2002, Jim Hickstein wrote:
> > I once conceived (a long time ago), but of course never implemented, a
> > thing I call "secretary".  Anything not on the whitelist goes to it, and it
> > autoreplies with, basically, "Do you have an appointment?".  It generates a
> > cookie that a correspondent can use in a reply to make the appointment,
> > i.e. get to the human (but not necessarily onto the whitelist).
> >
> > Surely the world has caught up with me, and this is available, now, by some
> > name.  Right?  I've seen pieces of it, but not exactly this way, and not
> > that work in anything but a UNIX and /var/mail environment, where the MUA
> > and MTA run on the same host.
> 
> I believe that spamcop lets you do this.

TDMA is actually what you are looking for.

Note that I do not answer those handshakes for people who send me back a
cookie. I admin sourceforge.net, and I get enough of these in response to
mailman reminders or whatever.
TDMA can work if you only Email a few friends.
If you are active on the internet, it's really an annoyance for others.

I could envision spamassassin giving mails to TDMA though:
"I don't require confirmation usually, but this mail looks like spam. Please
do foo to make sure I read it"

Marc
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