You may want look at using SA vi Mimedefang as your milter. http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/
Bounce, drop, discard, notify, quarantine, do what you will based on SA scores ... Keith Whyte wrote: > > I just got spamass milter working with sendmail 8.12, good enough, > interesting installing latest sendmail and everything, but i have to ask > myself what's the point? > > I thought that the milter was going to actually tell the sendmail and thus > the sender that the spam was detected and drop the SMTP session, but it > just accepts it and sends it on. > > There's no functional difference between running milter and > running spamc from /etc/procmailrc > > One important thing about spam filtering for my organisation would be to > let any valied sender know that their mail triggered a false positive. > OK, so most spammers from or reply-to addresses (if included) are only > going to cause more headache if replied to, but a valid sender who triggers > a false positive should at least know this. > > Now, it makes sense to me that if the SMTP listener could do this, by > refusing the mail with > a message that would let the sender know it bounced, it would allow real > users to take action to get their message through and would (hopefully) > make spambots back off from the system. no? > > what do folks think? > I've no idea how to program a milter, but i did read about what one is and > i think it would be great if the spamass-milter thing could be expanded to > drop the mail as soon as possible in the SMTP session. > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm > > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
