"John D. Hardin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/07/2006 02:16:49 PM:
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Paul Dudley wrote: > > > If we decide to reject low grade spam messages rather than > > quarantine them, is it possible to add text to the body of the > > rejection message? > > Rejecting (bouncing) spam is utterly pointless, as 99% of it will have > forged sender information. You will either be sending your notice to a > nonexistent address, in which case you get yet more useless traffic > back to your server in the form of a bounce of your bounce, or your > notice will go to some innocent third party, possibly contributing to > an effective DDoS against their email account. What about rejection of the message during message processing? Sending back an SMTP error code rather than generation of a completely new bounce message? Sendmail milter with Mimedefang etc allows you to do this. Cheers, Aaron > > -- > John Hardin KA7OHZ ICQ#15735746 http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] > key: 0xB8732E79 - 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > A weapons registration phase ... 4) allows for a degree of control > to be exercised during the collection phase; 5) assists in the > planning of the collection phase; ... > -- the UN, who "doesn't want to confiscate guns" > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > 13 days until The 37th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the Moon >
