Am 14.03.2013 21:04, schrieb Ansgar Wiechers:
> On 2013-03-14 Reindl Harald wrote:
>> Am 14.03.2013 17:07, schrieb Kris Deugau:
>>> Jerry wrote:
>>>> Personally, I have no idea why anyone uses "procmail". For
>>>> relatively fine grain sorting of mail upon delivery, I use Dovecot
>>>> and Sieve. From what I can ascertain, procmail hasn't even been
>>>> maintained in over a decade.
>>>
>>> Sieve can't call outside programs (eg SpamAssassin) by design.  IMO
>>> the inability to call any external filtering programs (even from a
>>> restricted whitelist) makes overall mail filtering significantly
>>> harder
>>
>> usually sieve comes AFTER SpamAssassin because it is a broken setup
>> using a pre queue filter because it results in become a backscatter
>> and you are usually not permitted by law accept a message with "250
>> OK" and drop it silent
> 
> That would be a post-queue filter. A pre-queue filter rejects, so you
> don't become a backscatter source

sorry, yes, i reverted the terminology

however, in the order of Sieve it would be way too late to
call SpamAssassin because you CAN NOT reject at this time
and spam has to be REJETED long before LDA / Sieve

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