Neil Watson wrote:
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 10:24:47AM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
their mail rejected by sa. I have been adding whitelist entries like crazy but I really loathe having to disable spam rejection by spamass-milter.
Rejecting spam is not a good idea. Most of the time you end up spamming some poor sod who has been joe-jobbed. Discard spam. Don't add the to problem.
Hi,
While this has been discussed before, I don't think rejecting spam at the smtp level is a bad idea, ie 551 - We think this is spam. How ever, bouncing spam after the smtp acceptance is a bad idea.
Since most spam is coming either from infected PC's or spammers dsl connections, rejecting at the smtp level is usually not a bad idea. It also allows for legitimate email that is marked as spam to be returned to the owner, if you just make spam vanish to /dev/null you may find you have some very unhappy clients further down the road who are wondering where that letter from the Legal department is.
Regards,
Rick
