Hi there,
I'm considering migrating my email handling to gmail for business.
I've used gmail as a web interface to my email for several years. It
works, and the spam filtering seems to be correct in almost every
case.
My current mail handling works as follows...
I use exim4 to handle the email for 6 domains. Only 2 of the domains
are used regularly, with about 10 accounts for each. It's not a big
set-up.
I have a droplist containing 718 'To:' addresses which definitely do
not exist - I was the target of a spam attack a few years ago. The
spammer created thousands of fake addresses using my domain. I get a
lot of attempts to these addresses, but the blocklist has been very
effective in taking the load of my server. :)
I make use of some wildcard addresses. john@???,
john-foo@??? and john-bar@??? and
john-amazon.com@??? are all accepted as valid addresses for
user 'John'. I used to use qmail and really liked the dot qmail idea.
Of the mail which gets through, I check the senders against a couple
of SBL lists (zen.spamhaus.org and list.dsbl.org). I perform a few
more checks before I pass it on to procmail. I use procmail to filter
through a whitelist and blacklist, then through ClamAssassin and
Bitfolk's SpamAssassin daemon. If it hasn't been dumped by this stage,
it is forwarded to a gmail account for ease of reading.
Does this sound like something which could be migrated to gmail? The
SBL and (clam|spam)assassin isn't a problem - gmail does this itself.
My concern is with the wildcard addresses. I know gmail supports the
'+ syntax' e.g. john+amazon.com@???, but manually converting
all of the addresses which use a hyphen, to use a plus sign would be
an impossible task. Unless you know of a viable solution?
I think that I make my email handling more difficult than necessary -
mostly borne out of that spam attack I went through
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Francis-Macrae) - but also because
of my frequent use of wildcard addresses.
Suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Duggie
