Sendmail configuration

[Kevin D. Clark]

pll at lanminds.com writes:

> In a message dated: 15 Jun 2003 22:05:21 EDT
> Jeff Macdonald said:

> >If I get mail addressed to this address that is not from thinkgeek then
> >I know they've sold my address. I do not need to create an account for
> >each plussed user because sendmail will first try the plussed address
> >and if that fails it then it will remove the plussed portion and try
> >that address.
> 
> I only do it for mailing lists and vendors which I do want to mail me 
> stuff.  For sites which superfluously require 'registration' for no 
> apparent gain to me (like NYTimes, etc.) I use 
> "sales at theirdomain.name.  e.g., sales at nytimes.com ;)

For sites that I want to be able to converse with via email, but that
I don't want to give my real email address, I use Emailias
(http://www.emailias.com/).  The way that I see it, it's too easy to
derive bob.bloggs at domainname.com from
bob.bloggs+thinkgeek at domainname.com -- and then your email address is
permanently available to the spammers.  The "double-blind" system of
Emailias is very handy as well.

Disclaimer: Emailias is a for-profit operation, and was conceived of
            by a friend of mine.  But I'm not involved with their
            operations, and I don't benefit from mentioning them here.

Regards,

--kevin
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