On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Scott Fraser wrote: > Good Morning Folks, > Well, after fighting with it longer than I care to admit, I do believe > I now have a working Postfix/SpamAssassin/Amavisd system. What I am > trying to do now, is configure the system wide (and eventually on a per > user basis) a way to bounce mail. Currently email that is spam is just > flagged. Our president wants to bounce it.
Has someone explained to him what a horrible idea this is? Spam is usually forged to look like it came from a non-existant or innocent address and bouncing the spam just adds to network burden and implicit denial-of-service attacks on those whose addresses are forged into the mail. Want samples? I've got a pile of bounces from broken mail systems resulting from spammers forging my address into their spew. Twice in three weeks. Please reconsider becoming part of the problem. Or do you mean 'reject' instead of 'bounce'? Rejection during the SMTP transaction is the proper way to handle this, rather than accepting the mail initially and later bouncing it to some random victim. This may not be possible to do with Postfix. -- Bob ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
