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Segmail and customers

One issue I see is that customers will take the website email address and store that forever. The mail will bounce for them when they decide to actually use it in the future.

In our environment, we have little choice but to accept from anywhere, and do our best to filter junk after it arrives. Segmail and any other anti-spam measures I have seen, do not address once-off and important incoming email from unverified senders in a commercial environment.

For an individual with little use for email, segmail may make their life somewhat easier, but a blanket blacklist with a whitelisted addressbook accomplishes much the same thing I think. A spammer would have to know and use an address on the addressbook to poke his payload into the inbox.

Michael

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