David Flanigan wrote: > Hello oh' gurus of Spamassassin: > > I have a, hopefully, quick question with regards to my implementation > of Spamassassin. > > In a nutshell it appears that Spamassassin is taking the time and > energy to check user- unknown e-mail.
[snip] > My question is why dose sendmail not just reject the message and > leave it be? Why process a message we have no intention of delivering > to anyone? Or am I reading this wrong? > > My link between sendmail and spamd is though /etc/procmailrc which > reads simply: > > > 0fw > > /usr/bin/spamc This is a sendmail issue. SpamAssassin simply scans whatever procmail sends it. Ask on the sendmail list. > This quest to track this down has all come from the fact that I am > seeing over 900 spam messages an hour. (see spam stats: > http://www.flanigan.net/spam/) and there are only about a doze active > mailboxes across my 3 or 4 domains. This is why I am constantly reminding people to make sure their spam and virus scanning machines can reject mail for unknown users. -- Bowie
