On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I keep hearing this said, but I think this line of thinking overlooks the > obvious: Bouncing emails tagged by SA isn't to notify the spammers, it's > to notify the senders of legitimate email that SA sometimes catches. If > you're running spamd in an ISP environment, to send those messages to > /dev/null would be irresponsible, and sending them to a different folder > would be a support headache, and wouldn't work right for pop3 anyway. > > I've had plenty of users complain about non-spam being bounced, with the > threshold set to 6.6. Typically, it's email that has alot of html and > image attachments.
Bouncing is a bad idea, for example if you bounce a single yahoogroups email (say from one of those hit and run spam groups) then your customers address will be put on hold for *all* the yahoo groups they are part of. I've seen plenty of others post to various mailing lists complaining when they get bounces back from people on the list due to over-active spam filters. These sort of bounces are not good advertisements for your service. What we do is put the spam in a seperate area and have a web interface that customers use to look at it. They just click on an email and it's moved back to their mailbox a few minutes later. 90-something percent of the email you bounce will be real spam, these email are going to either clog up your smarthost or mailbomb some innocent party. -- Simon Lyall. | Newsmaster | Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Network/System Admin | Postmaster | Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ihug, Auckland, NZ | Asst Doorman | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz ------------------------------------------------------- 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
