On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Richie Laager wrote: > Is it possible to have SpamAssassin take different actions based on the > message's rating? For example, if the message was from 5 to 7, flag it. > If it's from 7 to 9, flag it and reply to the sender, informing them > that the message was flagged as spam but sent through. If it's higher > than 9, delete the message and inform the sender of this action.
Lots of people seem to want this. I've mentioned before my thoughts that SpamAssassin itself shouldn't be doing things like sending mail - but rather just tagging mail. There are better tools for -sending- mail. Then again, this seems innocuous enough. The multiple threshold thing might be useful in many situations. That should be really easy to add. But I'm not sure that replying to spam will be useful. In fact, it's probably a total waste of time, or maybe even worse than that. For one thing, you don't have the envelope sender - so you can't send the "rejected because it was spam" back to the source. If it is spam, and a valid return address - you're confirming that they've reached a valid dropbox. If it is spam, with an invalid return address - you're putting more load on the mail system, because you'll generate a double bounce. SA is accurate enough, particularly at a threshold of 9, that everything is spam. Build a way to hook SA directly into the SMTP session; Use milter and teach SA how to reject during submission, or something like that. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
