Chris wrote: >> On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: >> >> >>> Does anyone know of a way, that whenever someone >>> > emails > >>> from say, for example, Nigeria, Korea, Russia and >>> China, the email either gets deleted by Spamassassin >>> > *or* returned to them, saying > >>> something like, "Email failed, no such email >>> > address" please ? > >>> Any help very much appreciated.
Generally speaking any delete, bounce or redirect action is something completely beyond SA's power because it doesn't control the message envelope. (although other tools with this power over the may take such actions based on them). However, your best bet is to implement a reject using a country-based blacklist at your MTA layer. No spamassassin needed. Don't bounce probable spam post-delivery. That just creates more problems than it solves, as the return-path and from: headers will generally point to some valid but innocent third-party (generally just randomly grabbed from the same database of addresses that the spam is being sent to).
