[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 15 Jan 2003, Jeremy Turner wrote: > > > 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. > > 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.
Why not send it to a discard directory and run a nightly cron job to let people know what was caught, e.g. From, To, Subject, SpamAssassin score. Then set up a web page (or an email alias to a program) that will allow someone to request the discarded email. Dustin ------------------------------------------------------- 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
