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. Regards Ansgar Wiechers -- "Abstractions save us time working, but they don't save us time learning." --Joel Spolsky
