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An AppleScript rule to check Mail against blackhole lists
Authored by: msk on May 27, '03 03:53:24PM

The posted AppleScript instructions are for a whitelist based system. After you run the email through the whitelist you got to do something with the stuff that does not match the whitelist. You either trash it, look it up in a black list, or send a challenge response (the latter can be implemented directly in OS X Mail or Eudora just using the filters).

However, whitelists are of limited value, spammers already sort email addresses by domain and use related email addresses as the from address to bypass whitelists--ineffective if your domain is yahoo or aol but if everyone in your domain is on your whitelist you need a fancier whitelist system then just depending on the from address. You need a system that parses the headers, remembers what servers and message-ids each friend generates.

Also, a system like TMDA requires admin access to the server and not every server has the software available to implement TMDA.



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