whitelisting by connection tracking

[Steve Swaney]

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> Behalf Of paddy
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 4:07 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: whitelisting by connection tracking
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been asked to implement a specific feature:
>
>   When we relay outgoing mail for a client we are to track the recipients
>   and then, essentially, whitelist those recipients for return mail.
>
> This seems like a reasonable and simple idea, and yet I'm having trouble
> tracking down any other mention of it.  I figure this indicates some or
> all of the following
>
> 1. I'm not looking very hard (okay, true ...)
> 2. It's a deeply flawed idea
>
> ... you get the idea.
>
> So if anyone can point me at existing implementations of this kind of
> thing
> or cares to point out complexities I may yet have overlooked, I'd be
> overjoyed.
>

If you're using sendmail, you might look at milter-sender. It's pretty
configurable and I think you might be able to turn off all of the blocking
features except:

# White list recipients of a local sender for future replies.

WhiteListFutureSender=1

At least it maight be a start :)

Steve
Steve Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
www.fsl.com
steve.swaney at fsl.com


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