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Les Mikesell wrote: | On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 12:55, Daniel Taylor wrote:
| | |>Say your potential client sends the same e-mail from the same location |>and your spam filter sidelines it because it triggered a couple minor |>SA rules and was from a blackholed IP range. | | | Well, that would be my own choice, wouldn't it? | | |>Now your potential client thinks the mail went through, you know nothing |>about it, and the business opportunity may well pass permanently because |>the potential client thinks you just aren't interested in the business. |>They are almost definitely offended by the non-response. |> |>Which scenario works better for you? | | | The latter, because I can apply my own valuation to the filtering and | check every message if I consider it worthwhile. If it happens at | the transport level, individual consideration no longer applies. | For exactly this reason, I never discard spam at the transport | level but tag it with MD in a way that lets individuals choose | their own filtering level. | | The place where it might be useful is in catching viruses that | forge the sender address, though. We've recently seen at least | two that came through before the scanners recognized them so | you can't really count on detecting them by content. |
As the recipient it is your choice. I would also note that if you are philosophically opposed to rejecting e-mail messages you can have your SPF filter operate in Tag-only mode.
Much depends on who you have to work with.
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