So I've been getting mail forwarded to me from a previous job, the people there were kind enough to do that for me so that I could receive emails from an article I wrote at perl.com. This allowed me to give them some props while still responding to emails about the article.
Now the problem here has been that the volume of spam I get through that link has gotten out of control. I get about 100 spams from when I go to sleep and when I wake up.
So I wrote a short qpsmtpd plugin to take care of this problem.
sub hook_data_post {
my ( $self, $transaction ) = @_;
my $recipient = $transaction->header->get('To');
chomp($recipient);
my $addr = 'fmoyer@xxxxxxx.com';
if (lc($recipient) eq $addr) {
$self->log(LOGINFO, "$domain BLOCKED");
return (DENY, "New address is fred at redhotpenguin dot com");
}
return DECLINED;
}
This stops the spam, but allows anyone legitimate who gets the bounce message to be informed of my new address. I had to use the hook _data_post callback instead of hook_rcpt since the rcpt hook picks up the address the mail was forwarded to. Another problem solved :)