> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bob Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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. >
Agreed. > 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.) > I guess what I'm wanting to do then is discard it. Is there a certain exit code that will do this? > 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. > Bouncing spam usually causes a double bounce and it ends back up at my mailer-daemon. This is the border mail server, which then uses smtproutes to deliver mail inside the firewall. There is a permfail() function inside of qmail-scanner I can call. I guess I'm wondering if that is a good way to go. Thanks for your input. Dallas _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
