I used to use Boxtrapper to control who could send email to an uber-secret email account, that Wordpress would check and post any email in that account.

For some reason my hosting service removed Boxtrapper and of course the spam found my inbox and was subsequently posted here on my blog.

To replace Boxtrapper, they’ve provided generic message control filters, so I set up a rule to allow email from my email accounts as the first rule and the second rule is this:

where from matches regex ‘.*’ bounce

So now if you aren’t on my approved list, you’ll get an NDR that simply states:

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

This will do the trick, at least until my provider decides to pull the plug on their message control filters.

Thanks again to every who notified me using Twitter, email, and my contact page on the blog and a big thanks to Martin McKeay for a very effective and creative way of getting the word to me. Good lookin’ out.

Belay on.

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