Yeah, the only hope would be to do this during the SMTP conversation, and return an SMTP error code instead of accepting the message or something. Not straightforward.
C On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 08:08, Tony Hoyle wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mike Grau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 25 February 2002 15:56 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Rejecting Spam at Sendmail > > > > > > Sendmail has a discard mailer, but the subject filter I have > > in place rejects messages, rather than discarding them. I suppose > > it could be written to use the discard mailer (but I am not a > > programmer), but why do you prefer to blackhole rather than > > rejecting the message? I could accept and then black hole messages > > from places that are attemptng to use me as an open relay also, > > but the usual practice is to just not allow it. > > > Often the place to reject to doesn't exist, so you'll just waste CPU > cycles and bandwidth that could be better used elsewhere. Even when > it does exist, it could be an innocent victim who gets flooded by the > reject messages. > > Tony > > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > > _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
