On 2003-08-27 08:42:12 -0500, Mike Burger wrote: > Yes...SpamAssassin, if it detects the presence of Razor, will use Razor in > its spam checking process. > > The MTA, however, won't reject or accept the mail, based on Razor or > SpamAssassin. What will happen, instead, is that you can set up your > /etc/procmailrc file to send anything with "RAZOR2_CHECK" in the report to > /dev/null.
If you use SpamAssassin from procmail, yes (although can use procmail to
bounce mail, too).
But you can also use SpamAssassin directly from the MDA (e.g., with
spamass-milter for sendmail, or with qpsmtpd as a qmail-smtpd
replacement) and then you can reject mails which exceed a certain
threshold. IMHO this is preferrable to just throwing mails into the
bitbucket.
There is a general problem with doing checks in the MTA, though: If you
are already into the DATA phase, you can only reject or accept the mail
as a whole - you cannot accept it for some recipients, but not for
others. So it it a bit difficult to implement different checks for
different users.
hp
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