On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Chris Edwards wrote: > | The problem or feature of the current system seems to be that you don't > | really know who the email is from. Received: and From: headers can be > | faked, so that you really don't know that the listed location is the > | true originating location. You can't reliably bounce an email or notify > | a postmaster/abuse account because the email can't be linked back to the > | originating location from the email alone. > > If you run SA with exim + exiscan you can refuse spam messages during the > SMTP session itself. In other words, your server gives a 5xx response > after the DATA phase. > > For a legit message, the sender's MTA will generate a failure report > "bounce" message going back to the sender. For spam, the spamware will > likely ignore the error altogether. ( not that we care what it does ) > > I'm sorry I don't know whether this can be done with sendmail's milter > interface.
This would be ideal, but qmail won't do this either, AFAIK...this would also solve the problem of the HUGE outgoing queue due to bouncing spam... James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am ========================================================================= ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com Understand how to protect your customers personal information by implementing SSL on your Apache Web Server. Click here to get our FREE Thawte Apache Guide: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0029en _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
