> You can use HOLD (in postfix) or a quarantine mechanism.

What do you mean quarantine mechanism?  If this can be done in sendmail,
please tell me how.

> For legitimate ones only. but if the ratio of those is too small, why
> would one optimize for rare cases.

Because all it takes is one serious false positive for people to lose
confidence in the system.  Losing mail, for me and my users, is not a
real option.  Regardless, what sort of comment is that?  If I state that
I wish to do something, and the thing that I wish to do isn't "way out
there", what good is it to reply and question my motives?

mouss wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Yes, but is there an alternative that will permit rejection of messages?
>>  A dual SMTP setup will only let you bounce them. 
> 
> You can use HOLD (in postfix) or a quarantine mechanism.
> 
>>  Bouncing viruses or
>> spam is not the best way to go, however losing mail isn't very
>> acceptable either.  Rejection in my opinion is the way to go for these
>> types of messages.
>>   
> 
> For legitimate ones only. but if the ratio of those is too small, why 
> would one optimize for rare cases.
> 
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