how does one go about setting up an SMTPReject wrt SA ? are there docs for sendmail/exim/qmail etc ?
i would love to 5xx say spam above certain threshold with a rude message ^_^ thanks in advance ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bart Schaefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 8:38 PM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin on Gateway server (MX) > On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 02:20:16AM -0600, David B Funk wrote: > > > If you SMTP reject the spam, it never hits your queue, so no problem > > > with the garbage piling up and no bombarding poor innocent 'joe-job' > > > victims. It's better than auto-deleting spam, as a legit message > > > that is accidentally mis-identified as spam gets returned to the > > > true sender and they can remedy the situation rather than wondering > > > what happened to their message. > > > > I hope you see the contradiction in the above paragraph. > > There's no contradiction; he said "SMTP reject" which implies a 5xx > response at some point in the SMTP protocol, not a queue-then-bounce. > > 5xx rejects sometimes cause "bombarding poor innocent 'joe-job' victims" > but only if the messages are passing through a relay that has already done > the queue-then-(deliver or bounce) part. > > On a direct connect from the sender's MTA to yours, a 5xx reject will only > affect the actual sender (regardless of MAIL FROM: forgery), which is what > you want in the case of legitimate (e.g. accidentally misaddressed) email. > > > I had spamass-milter setup to reject for a while, and I found that my > > queues were always full. > > spamass-milter is not rejecting during SMTP, then -- or you have a gateway > server that's doing the queue-and-bounce, with spamass-milter running > elsewhere. In that case you should be doing the rejecting at the gateway. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
