Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Thunderbird and SURBL?

On Monday, December 13, 2004, 8:14:51 AM, Chris Santerre wrote:

Thinking out loud....

Anyone have contact with thunderbird devs? Could a pop proxy be used to check emails being downloaded by thunderbird on SURBL, then decline to download the ones that hit? Obviously with whitelist bypasses?

Then the user could use a web client to delete spams without downloading? Or whatever.....

That's an interesting idea, but it could generate more DNS traffic than our name servers can handle. It's probably better to do these kinds of things in a centralized way on mail servers to take advantage of DNS caching, etc. more strongly.

Jeff C. -- "If it appears in hams, then don't list it."