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edelbitter • yesterday at 8:35 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> Most of the junk we've been getting passes DMARC and has an unsubscribe link.

You say that like its a problem.. its a formidable solution!

Has worked for me for many years now: Just fail2ban-style block (groups of) relays that attempt to send an unsubscribe-link destined for a mailbox that never ever subscribes to anything. Those malicious-compliance folks add these unsubscribe links everywhere because they determined that its a cheap method for reducing blocks. That makes them reliably stand out whenever they hit strictly human-to-human mailboxes that simply never have any reason to "unsubscribe". Its like a honeypot, and all it took was a strict policy about what a tiny fraction of mailboxes can and cannot be used for.


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adiabatichottub • yesterday at 8:53 PM

I'll have to ponder the method you describe. I know I could implement that on my own mailboxes and some automated endpoints, but not sure how that would work for other users on our domain.

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