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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: adamf663 on February 09, 2011, 04:38:18 PM
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An antispam tactic I use is to add an extension to my userid when supplying it on web forms. For example, userid@domain.com could become userid+iknowyou@domain.com.
The email system would then ignore the extension and deliver emails to userid@iknowyou@domain.com to userid@domain.com.
If the user starts getting spam, he can then see the +iknowyou extension and know who the culprit was who passed his userid on to the spammers.
I don't see this feature in smeserver. Does the feature have another name other than "suffix" or "extension"?
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I think you will have a waste of time trying to track down the spammers.
How ever, SME Server does allow the use of
userid-iknowyou@domain.com
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An antispam tactic I use is to add an extension to my userid when supplying it on web forms. For example, userid@domain.com could become userid+iknowyou@domain.com.
With SME server, you can use:
userid-iknowyou@domain.com
[Note that there is currently an open bug, because this works only for users, and not for groups:
http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5025
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That'll work.
I don't expect to track down spammers other than know that the website I gave the alias to can't be trusted.
The other thing I can do is add an email filter on the alias to block it; problem is of course with spammers that strip it. Using minus instead of plus is less conventional and will be more resistant to spammers stripping the extension.