On 10 Dec 2020, at 6:48, @lbutlr wrote:
On 10 Dec 2020, at 03:58, Vincent Pelletier <plr.vinc...@gmail.com>
wrote:
[...]
I'm not sure what the "silent drop" is about...
Some recipient server is setup to pretend-accept your emails when you
are listed on that DNSBL ?
Some setups do this. Certainly before psotscreen if I received mail
and SA scored it above a certain level the mail was effectively
silently dropped. (Not in point of fact, it was recoverable for a
week, just in case, but it was not delivered to the target account).
That's entirely due to a conscious choice in the design of the receiving
system in how SpamAssassin has been integrated. It is NOT an inherent
behavior of SA, which only scores messages and does not itself implement
any sort of message disposition. For as long as Postfix has had
before-queue filtering, it has been able to avoid the no-winners contest
between "silent drop," "silent quarantine," and "backscatter," no matter
which tactics are being used by filtering tools.
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