Re: FN-FORUM: Boxtrapper

date posted 21st November 2007 08:40

On 21/11/2007 09:11, Rob Owen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have become totally pi$$ed off by the amount of spam I have been receiving
> lately.
>
> I do have a spam filter on my mail client, but I want to implement something
> server side.
>
> I was wondering if anyone had used Boxtrapper before, or something similar.
>
> Boxtrapper works by whitelisting verified email addresses and only
> delivering mail from whitelisted sources.
>
> If you were to send me an email and you were not whitelisted then that
> message would be placed in a queue and you would receive an email asking you
> to verify that you are a real human being and not an automated mailer. All
> you need to do to verify your email address is to reply to the verification
> message.
>
> Once verified, your address is added to the whitelist and any queued
> messages are delivered. Verification is required only once.
>
> I know that people are inherently lazy or too busy to be bothered verifying
> their email address and just wondered whether they would be put off by
> having to do this.
>
> I just wanted to know if anyone had implemented a system like this and
> whether they had found a reduction in legitimate mail they were receiving as
> a consequence.
>
> Regards
>
> Rob Owen
>

If it's vital I send you the mail, then I'd verify my address. You'll
have to make sure you whitelist automated systems e.g. mailing lists
which could take time if you have to check the mail incoming to see what
mails were what.

Personally I think you should just install some decent spam filtering, I
use spamassassin (with fuzzyocr plugin for image spam) + amavis on my
mail servers, and very little spam gets to my inbox, and then
thunderbird easily takes care of that once trained.

Martin