Well, unfortunately, since we've just recently rolled this out, we're not turfing emails with sa_delete/sa_reject just yet. That said, I'm sure I'll eliminate many, many bounces when we implement it.
I guess what I'm looking for is confirmation that this is basically a necessary evil and that there isn't a way to only send notifications to legitimate email users, instead of fake ones like [EMAIL PROTECTED] James -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Salvatore Toribio Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 3:24 AM To: James Herschel; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]Notifications At 11:59 -0500 26-01-2004, James Herschel wrote: >Hopefully this hasn't been asked a hundred times ... Basically, I've got >qmail-scanner set up to send notifications to sender and admin so that >remote users know if their email gets stopped by qmail-scanner. > >Using: >SA 2.61 >QS 1.20st >ClamAV 0.65 >Qmail-1.03 > >The problem is that 99.99999% of these notifications are being sent to >spammers with non-existent accounts. So basically, I've got hundreds of >emails waiting for delivery in my queue that are skewing my stats and hiding >potential throughput problems. Besides that, these emails will eventually >timeout in the queue and send me a failure notice. > >Has anyone come up with a creative way to deal with this issue? What do you >do? I've tried lowering my queue-time, which doesn't do much at all except >lower the amount of HD space my queue takes up (really a non-issue). > >Not sure what I can do besides turning off notifications to the sender, but >I like the idea of letting the sender know right away. What would be really >cool would be to drop the notification if the SA score is past a certain >threshold ... anyone feel like writing a patch ;-) 1) If you use sa_delete, no notifications will be sent to the sender. 2) If you enable sa-reject your server won't have to deal with those notifications, the last server used by the spammer will do the job for you.. See: <http://xoomer.virgilio.it/j.toribio/qmail-scanner/testingreject.html> to see the bounce messages. Salvatore > >Besides that, I guess I could just tighten down my BADRCPTHOSTS so that more >spam is dropped right off the bat ... but I'm just grasping at straws. > >Thanks for your input!! > >James > ------------------------------------------------------- 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 _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general ------------------------------------------------------- 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 _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
