From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Sat Oct 02 2004 - 17:04:33 CDT

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Kirk Bailey:
> I am intrested in antispam services.
> Specifally, throwaway accounts.
> existing instances:
> http://spambob.com/
> http://www.dodgeit.com/ (favorite, will referr to it later)
> http://www.spamgourmet.com/
> Feel free to examine them to see what they are doing.
>
> The idea is you give out an address, ANY address, at a domain.
> example: Mikey3000dogit.com
> When email comes in to the domain, IT CREATES AN EMAIL BOX FOR IT if
> there is none yet existing, then drops the mail into the mailbox
> normally. NO outgoing smtp service is offered.
>
> As is, sendmail will not do this, but postfix is SO flexible it's
> unreal, so I suspect it can handle it nicely.

Don't auto-create mailboxes for addresses that don't exist. That
is a very bad idea. Your mail spool will fill up with random
garbage quickly.

Apart from that, both MTAs should be able to handle this. All you
need is a tool that allows a user to set up a new virtual(8) or
local(8) alias that directs mail to their real account, and to
destroy the alias when it is no longer wanted. The tool needs to
apply some sanity checks to prevent accidents where a user gets
someone elses mail, and other mis-behavior.

        Wietse

> The user can access the account using a web portal, but there are
> several on the web for the task, such as webmail or squirrelmail.
>
> Now I am moderately experienced with sendmail, FreeBSD, python, and
> HTML. Postfix I am green as grass. This is doable, and should not be a
> gargantuan task. All it has to do special is- create a mailbox for a
> identity that is not yet represented, and still interface with existing
> ones normally.
>
> Now how would I do that?
>
>
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