In <[email protected]>, on
09/28/2011
at 02:58 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht <[email protected]>
said:
>Agreed. What do you suggest in place of this filtering and hold area?
Reject suspect messages with an appropriate 5yz response during the
SMTP transaction, e.g.,
550 5.7.1 Messages not accepted from wanado due to spam issues.
>In my Outlook ( or stupidlook :-D ), sometimes legitimate e-mails do
>reside in a 'junk' folder and I need then to move it to my Inbox so
>I can see the attachment(s).
When I've had to use such software, I inevitably wind up inadvertently
deleting legitimate e-mail, and always spend to much time trying to
separate the wheat from the chaff.
>Do you perhaps have better solutions?
Follow BCP? E.g, in RFC 2505:
1.5. Where to block spam, in SMTP, in RFC822 or in the UA
Our basic assumption is that refuse/accept is handled at the SMTP
layer and that an MTA that decides to refuse a message should do
so
while still in the SMTP dialogue.
>(Oh, BTW, I'm SOL stuck with Outlook
Isn't that just the client? The problem is in the e-mail server, or
its configuration. See RFC 5598 for an overview of how Internet e-mail
is supposed to work.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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