On 08-Mar-10 23:51, Brian wrote:
Yes, but that does not answer my question {and is once more Postfix
biased} AFAIK Postfix is totally unable to reject mail at SMTP time that
Spamassassin decides IS SPAM without the aid of a milter or policy
deamon of some kind. Unless you know different?
You don't let messages even GET to SA until they pass sane checks (like
reject_non_fqdn_sender and reject_non_fqdn_recipient).
Natively It can happily do it after accepting the mail (hint - a bit
late then...) with an after queue filter, but this is prone to the
phenomenon that is 'Postscatter' -sending the message back to the
(often) forged sender.
You never send back a spam that you accepted. You reject it, deliver it,
or discard it. *Never* bounce backscatter.
Postfix, much that I love it, has some gaping holes in it's feature set.
No, it really doesn't.
It really is an MTA for the 1990's. The need to bolt in an Sendmail
Milter to get it to reject Spamassassin tagged mail at the SMTP stage is
a glaring example IHMO - But all this is very much OT.
If you want milters, postfix has supported them for years. They are not
necessary in this case.
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