--On Dienstag, 30. Dezember 2003 08:50 -0600 Joe Laffey
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't think we ever came to a resolution for the best way to discrad
> spam from a .mailfilter. People tried delivering to /dev/null, etc.
Delivery to /bin/true should work just fine, or if you dont want to
spawn a shell rtfm maildropfilter(5):
The exit statement causes maildrop to terminate
without delivering the message anywhere.
> I wondered if Sam had any comments on how to do this? I am now in a
> position where I need to discard spam marked above a certain threshold.
>
> I can deliver it to a junk mailbox and have a cronjob delete it. But it
> seems there must be a better way.
whats wrong with:
EXITCODE=0
exit
> Simply rejecting it with something like an exitcode of 99 fills up the
> mailqueue with junk trying to be delivered to non-existent
> addresses/domains.
Nonbody cares about your queue, but the innocent forged senders and
their postmasters hopefully blackhole any spam-bouncing host forever.
Roland
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