On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 14:06 -0400, Jason S wrote: > Shane Chrisp wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 12:16 -0400, Jason S wrote: > > > >> right. If you enable spam-hits, then passthru is disabled. > >> > >> --enable-spam-passthru=y|n > >> This option turns spam passthru on and off. When enabled, email > >> identified as spam via the X-Spam-Status: header will be passed on > >> to the user instead of rejected. > >> Note : *Enabling spam-hits effectively disables this option* > > > > I have played around with these options too and I would use it, but I > > cant seem to work out how to reject mail to users who dont want it > > passed through to them. Do you do that, or do you just pass all mail > > through to the users maildir or delete it? > > > > I pass it all through to the user's spam folder. that is just how it > works best for my setup. > > if you want selective treatment of spam (using the pass-through method), > you can create a .qmail file in the user's Maildir (or use the valias > table in mysql) and use Maildrop to drop the spam into the .Spam folder > (or just delete it).
Thanks for your answer but personally I can see why spam just keeps increasing to higher and ever higher levels. When you start accepting all emails and either deleting them or dropping them into a spam folder all its does is to encourage the spammers to send even more. If everyone rejected the spam emails at smtp time you would see a dramatic change in the volume of spam. Regards Shane
