Am 26.09.2014 um 18:18 schrieb Klaipedaville on Google:
>> it is true and besides the german legal letter below you violate a second 
>> law at the same time - that is why you have to run a spamfilter *before 
>> queue* and sa-milter exists - in case you reject a message
>> the sending server is responsible for a bounce
>>
>> in case you accept and silently drop it you have a unacceptable 
>> configuration - independent of laws - in case of a important and time 
>> critical mail i need to know it was rejected and so can call the person by 
>> phone or try to >remove something which triggered a false positive
>> ____________________________________________________
>>
>> there are two important rules for mail:
>>
>> a) if you accept it you have to deliver it
>> b) if you can't deliver it you must not accept it
>>
>> if you follow b) you don't become a backscatter
>>
>> http://www.postfix.org/MILTER_README.html
> 
> Yep, that's correct about point b). Plus, I also personally agree that 
> rejecting is better, than having it silently discarded. Good thing is that I 
> do not reside in Germany so I am safe on that 
> 
> In fact, postfix before-queue content filter has limits in the amount of mail 
> that a site can handle: http://www.postfix.org/SMTPD_PROXY_README.html 
> therefore legal part of this in Germany limits all German people on resources 
> as every single person is forced to run before-queue filters which in my 
> opinion has its own disadvantages on top of everything else and despite the 
> laws as well.

that's no problem because with RBL weighting and postscreen you reject 95%
of the crap before it ever touchs smtpd or even the contentfilter

that stats below are about a maillog starting with Sep 18 19:50:39
for some hundrest domains and currently 2000 valid RCPT, if the
contentfilter has to handle most of your incoming flow you made
a mistake by not reject earlier with "cheaper" methods
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that part never touched the contentfilter

Invalid User:      3074
Disallowed User:   2
Reject Postscreen: 148451
Reject Postfix:    6225
Blacklist:         144880
Pregreet:          5143
Protocol Error:    1607
Helo:              190
Sender Blocked:    200
Sender Invalid:    229
Sender Spoofed:    847
PTR Missing:       1347
PTR Generic:       319
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Connections:       185848
Delivered:         20293
Invalid User:      3074
Disallowed User:   2
Reject Postscreen: 148451
Reject Postfix:    6225
Reject Temporary:  507
Blacklist:         144880
Pregreet:          5143
Protocol Error:    1607
Spamfilter:        2297
Virus:             115
Helo:              190
Subject:           42
Attachment:        0
Sender Blocked:    200
Sender Invalid:    229
Sender Spoofed:    847
PTR Missing:       1347
PTR Generic:       319

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