On Tuesday 30 September 2008, Shane Chrisp wrote: > 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.
Rblsmtpd can stop mail from bad sources at smtp time but clamav, spamc etc have to slurp in the mail in order to analyse it. Spammers don't know or care about rejects ;-( > > Regards > Shane -- ----------------- Bob Hutchinson Midwales dot com -----------------
