Ian Bogost writes in the Atlantic: It feels like every company and organization I’ve ever transacted with sends me email every week. Some every day, even. Some multiple times a day. I see this in action with my wife's "free" email account hosted by one of the major players in the email provider space. She has another email account that sees none of this. Not because that address is unknown but because it's hosted on a private email server that I run. Nothing gets through that isn't specifically allowed by the postfix/spamassassin filters and lists. It's quite simple, really. If either of us wants to do business with a company that requires an email, I create an email alias with the company's name as the username. That alias is then assigned as a value to a "whitelist_to" key for spamassassin and entered into an virtual aliases database table for postfix to know the actual email account where the message should be delivered.
The Shopping Mall in Your Inbox
The Shopping Mall in Your Inbox
The Shopping Mall in Your Inbox
Ian Bogost writes in the Atlantic: It feels like every company and organization I’ve ever transacted with sends me email every week. Some every day, even. Some multiple times a day. I see this in action with my wife's "free" email account hosted by one of the major players in the email provider space. She has another email account that sees none of this. Not because that address is unknown but because it's hosted on a private email server that I run. Nothing gets through that isn't specifically allowed by the postfix/spamassassin filters and lists. It's quite simple, really. If either of us wants to do business with a company that requires an email, I create an email alias with the company's name as the username. That alias is then assigned as a value to a "whitelist_to" key for spamassassin and entered into an virtual aliases database table for postfix to know the actual email account where the message should be delivered.