mail-filter/postwhite: New ebuild mail-filter/postwhite for bug 232647

[~andy/sunrise] / mail-filter / postwhite / metadata.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+       <herd>maintainer-wanted</herd>
+       <maintainer>
+               <email>gentoo@bitcetera.com</email>
+               <name>Sven Schwyn</name>
+       </maintainer>
+       <longdescription lang="en">
+               Postwhite is a policy server for Postfix MTA which filters incoming emails
+               based on per recipient whitelists managed by an email frontend.
+               
+               Incoming emails are denied unless the sender address or sender domain is 
+               present on the recipient's whitelist. This concept is neither new nor fancy
+               in itself, but the way Postwhite lets you manage your whitelist sure is.
+
+               Here is a real life example:
+
+               Arthur's main email address arthur@dent.tld is great for everyday
+               use, but he doesn't want to pollute it by using it for mailing lists,
+               websites, online shopping and such. Postwhite to the rescue! Arthur creates 
+               a virtual email address hitchhike@dent.tld which is delivered to 
+               the same mailbox. He adds this address to recipients.yml and then
+               restarts Postwhite.
+
+               Initially, all incoming emails will be denied, so when Arthur decides to 
+               join the Betelgeuse mailing list, his whitelist has to learn about this. 
+               Arthur sends an empty email to hitchhike+learn@dent.tld which
+               puts Postwhite into learning mode for a limited period of time. In learning
+               mode, Postwhite allows and delivers any incoming mails, yet it
+               delivers a followup notification message along with it. When the first 
+               email from the Betelgeuse mailing list comes in, Arthur simply replies to 
+               the corresponding notification message thus adding Betelgeuse to the 
+               whitelist.
+       </longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>