> On May 20, 2019, at 10:17 AM, Brent Clark via mailop <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Good day Guys > > Just want to check with the community. > > My colleague has proposed that at smtp time, if a mail is deemed as spam, the > server issues a reject code, but then to too accept the mail and forward the > mail the user for incase its a false positive. > > His logic is that, that the spammer does not build up a database.
Rejecting at the end of data will prevent spammers^W entirely legitimate list cleansing services from building databases about as effectively. > Currently what we do is, if the score is between 5 and 15, just accept and > move the spam to the users SPAM box. Above 15 we out right block. Telling the recipient one thing and the sender another about whether an email was delivered is likely to cause you problems with legitimate senders, while being mostly irrelevant to bad actors. Consider what mailing lists will do in response to this, and what your user will see happen, as one example. > I am on the fence on this one, hence the reason to pick the communities brain. > > If anyone can share any thoughts or concerns, please can you share. Cheers, Steve _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
