> I am using spamassassin site wide with qmail-scanner. I was wondering if it > is possible to defer the mail, instead of delivering or bouncing the mail? > Does anyone do this? Is it recommended?
If you deferred it now, that would mean that it would resend the message again in a few (30?) minutes. At which point nothing has changed and you would defer it again. Lather, rinse, repeat. Since the message would never get delivered you might as well choose to either bounce it or discard it. At least that way it is out of the system. (I open my physical paper mail over the trash can too.) Bouncing messages would be preferred if you can do it at the border machine so that the message is refused directly to the spammer engine. But if you are pulling mail from a mail server that has already received it from the spammer, such as a corporate or ISP mail hub, then it is too late. The spammer has already delivered the message and gotten out of the way. Spammers usually refuse to accept bounces and so the message would then only clog up the mail hub until it times out. Which might be good if you are trying to force a change to the ISP filtering but otherwise is probably not productive. Bob _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
