On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 the voices made Jess Anderson write: JA> Tony Earnshaw: JA> >Kelly Annette Jameson: JA> > JA> > > Does anyone know how to setup Spam Assassin to automatically count all JA> > > messages over a certain size as spam so they can be bounced back? JA> > JA> > Isn't this something your MTA should be configured to do? Mine (Exim JA> > 4.12) can, without using SA. JA> JA> I thought the general wisdom was that it's *never* a good idea JA> to bounce spam, and especially not under program control. that JA> it accomplishes no good (addresses are fake anyway) and has JA> the potential to do harm (directs mail to innocent parties or JA> provides opportunity for denial of service attack). So the JA> right advice would be: Don't Do That!
That's why you let the MTA do it; it'll just reject the mail instead of bouncing it. Well... it's not a solution without victims, but it is a lot better then using some kind of broken auto-reply. -- /\___/\ /\___/\ \_@ @_/ \_@ @_/ +--oOO-(_)-OOo------------------------------------------oOO-(_)-OOo--+ | Per scientiam ad libertatem! // Through knowledge towards freedom! | +---���---���--------------------------------------------���---���---+ \O/ \O/ (c)1998-2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] \O/ \O/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk