I used to reject mail at the SMTP level until my users were mysteriously getting de-subscribed from mailing lists. Good list admins will dump subscribers they can't deliver to, so if someone Razor's your list, then you get unsubscribed. So now I don't do that any more. It just silently passes on to the "spam" bucket. I review messages that that aren't tagged by at least two spam filters. And I don't have people calling me about their list subscriptions.
Fox ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Sheppard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bob Apthorpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 3:02 PM Subject: Re: [Razor-users] Turning Razor into a censorship tool > > > Besides, who cares if a message is being tagged as spam so long as > > > it's being delivered. Note that I said "tagged". Razor, SA, > > > pyzor, etc are not MTA and don't come with any code to drop a > > > message into the bit-bucket. > > > > YMMV. You can run Razor from within SpamAssassin within Amavis > > within Postfix (or within MimeDefang within Sendmail or within > > something within Exim, etc.) and use it to reject mail during the > > SMTP phase or silently discard the mail before final delivery to the > > user. > > That's what I do: Sendmail -> MIMEDefang -> SpamAssassin -> Razor. > It's very useful for preventing build up of double-bounced spam in the > postmaster mailbox which was totally swamping legitimate mail. Of > course I've set things up so that SA has to return a pretty high score > for MIMEDefang to reject mail (10) and Razor alone won't do it > (although I've set that quite high (7)). SA scores of 5 to 9.9 get a > header added. I also shoved a ClamAV scan in there. This setup has > greatly cleaned up the email stream. > > Rejecting at the SMTP level really makes things much easier to deal > with from an admin point of view, and I imagine that many others have > discovered this and are doing likewise. I never silently discard > email because then no-one knows it's a problem. By rejecting > hopefully someone somewhere will see that there's a problem and do > something about it. > > Mark. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: SlickEdit Inc. Develop an edge. > The most comprehensive and flexible code editor you can use. > Code faster. C/C++, C#, Java, HTML, XML, many more. FREE 30-Day Trial. > www.slickedit.com/sourceforge > _______________________________________________ > Razor-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/razor-users ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Razor-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/razor-users
