On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:36:43PM -0900, Matthew Schumacher wrote: > > A fourth option is to introduce a "spam folder", where you file > > suspected spams. We already use this currently. Then if you cannot > > reject an email for one user (because another user does want to > > receive the email), flag the message to be delivered to the > > spam folder. > > This doesn't work because most of the people using the mail system use > POP3. I would love for people to ditch pop3, but due to poor support > for IMAP in "widely-used-but-marginal" (as David puts it) clients make > IMAP pretty lame.
We actually currently use a "spam folder" that is a completely separate account. Each user has a shadow account as a spam drop box. Everyone can use that, just setup another account in your mail client. We even provide a hotlink "log in to my spam account" from webmail. This also makes it very easy on the MIMEDefang side: to divert to a spambox, simply remove the recipient and add the recipient's spambox. I'd like to introduce an optional spam/ folder to be used for our IMAP customers, but I'm still not entirely sure how to pass a flag to mail.local to _one specific_ recipient from within MIMEDefang. And because of privacy, you can't have a header "this should go into joe's spambox", of course. > This is an interesting idea, temp-failing recipients with dissimilar > spam settings, but due to lame email clients, it sounds like it would be > a lot of trouble. Erm... what do you care about insufficiently conforming email clients on your incoming mail server? There shouldn't be any clients talking to that MTA directly anyway. -- Jan-Pieter Cornet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> !! Disclamer: The addressee of this email is not the intended recipient. !! !! This is only a test of the echelon and data retention systems. Please !! !! archive this message indefinitely to allow verification of the logs. !! _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
