On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 16:10, David Gladstone wrote:
> i am a user of spamassassin and would like to have spamassassin send a
> response to the spammer and the recivere of the spam when it recives spam.
> please help
1. SpamAssassin doesn't actually do the sending of emails. This is
handled by your MTA (sendmail, postfix, exim, etc). If I'm wrong, could
someone correct me?
2. As discussed previously on this thread (I believe), it might be a
bad idea to send an email back to a spam source. At best, the address
doesn't exist, creating a returned bounce email and wasting bandwidth.
At worst, the spam source could be a valid user who didn't send the
spam. Sending some sort of return email would not be good.
3. If I understand you right, for each email tagged as spam:
1. the spam email gets delivered
2. a response is sent to the recipient
3. a response is sent to the spam sender's address
For one spam email, you add two other emails, which could turn into a
big bandwidth issue if you're running a large site.
If you really want to go through with it, I would check archives of a
mailing list of your MTA and write some sort of processing script.
Jeremy
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