Fabiano Bonin wrote: > BUT, in my particular point of view, spam generates 2 big problems: > > 1 - Lots of crap in our mailboxes > 2 - Lots of internet traffic > > Today, SpamAssassin is solving problem number 1 greatly, but problem > number 2 is unsolved, since i will continue to receive all this crap > all day (i just will not see it), and the internet traffix will > continue suffering.
Unless you can use the sender/recipient address(es) or the pair of them, or the sending relay IP/hostname/HELO argument to decide for certain that you don't want to receive the message body, you MUST burn bandwidth to accept the mail before SA can go to work on it. :/ I don't know of any SMTP implementations that will stop sending data if the receiving system generates a response before it's done sending- certainly spamware generally won't. :( > If there was a way to reject the spam in the mail server (returning > the rejection to the sender), maybe the spammers will remove our > addresses from its lists, and the traffic will decrease. Hah. I've been maintaining a set of servers at static addresses for several years now, and there are *still* log messages showing a long list of senders getting rejected which I added to sendmail's access map 3 years ago. If there's a persistent sender, I drop them in the access map. If there's a persistent spamhost, I drop them in the access map. Then they're just burning my logspace, not my bandwidth. Note that this DOES require somewhat more manual watching and checking. > Spamass-milter-0.2.0 Supposedly spamass-milter can reject mail at the SMTP stage and do some other similar processing; a number of other people on this list seem to have gotten it to work. I never got it working, so I dropped it and switched to MIMEDefang- which doesn't just interface with SA, it has hooks for all sorts of other useful anti-spam/anti-nastyware goodies. -kgd -- <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
