Jim Davis wrote: >>From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> The downside of all client side solutions is that you first have >> to download the email to the client and it is filtered only then. > > Too true - but the benefit is that for some people (like me) who chack many > email addresses through the same client (I'm up to about 12) I've got one > solution that does it for everything.
A partial workaround would be to use fetchmail to consolidate email from all your accounts to one server (and then split it out using procmail again). I am saying partial workaround because that still does't allow you to do one crucial thing: reject instead of delete email. SMTP is typically a handshake between the servers, then they exchange some message headers and then the message DATA. Once the receiving server sends a OK in response to the DATA, it accepts full responsibility for that message. Any false positives in the virus / spam filtering after that are the responsibility of the postmaster. A postmaster can hardly send a notification about every filtered message because usually the from address of spam is faked (postmasters that do so should be executed), but if he doesn't he takes full responsibility. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. The solution is to filter even earlier, before sending the OK to the sending server. That effectively makes your problem the problem of the sender: the sender gets an error and can choose to retry or not (spam zombies never bother). Only if you use fetchmail you have already accepted the email (it has been accepted on your behalf), so you again have the false positives problem. And if you are really evil, you will use OpenBSDs pf/spamd to make life as miserable as possible on the sender :-) Jochem (from his brand new Linux desktop) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:204298 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
