Spam Filter

[jdow]

From: "Paul Howarth" <paul at city-fan.org>

> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 12:11 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>>> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 10:29 +0100, Samatason Ltd wrote:
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> What's the best approach to filtering out spam at server mailbox level? I am
>>>>> running FC5 and SendMail...
>>>>>
>>>>> Best Regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Chris
>>>>>
>>>> There seems to be a sisagreement on this but I would try spamasasassin.
>>>> The program is isntalled but you can find installation configuration
>>>> instructions on the web.
>>>>
>>>> Since sendmail runs procmail on each messgae it receives you can use
>>>> a .procmailrc script to run spamassassin and distribute your mail
>>>> (including the spam found) in to appropriate mail boxes.
>>> Running spamassassin using a milter has the advantage that you can 
>>> reject the spam during the SMTP transaction. So in the rare case where a 
>>> legitimate message is mis-identified as spam, the sender gets to know 
>>> that it wasn't delivered. You can't safely do that using procmail.
>>>
>>> Paul.
>>>
>> Huh! I have being doing that for years byt having .procmailrc direct
>> identified spam to a special file. Doesn't that do it or do I not
>> understand you point?
> 
> Doing this means that *you* get to see the mail identified as spam, when 
> you look in the special file. Rejecting the message in the SMTP 
> transaction means that the *sender* knows you didn't get the email, so 
> they can either try resending a less-spammy message, or contacting you 
> by other means if it's something important. No intervention needed on 
> your part.

Oh really.... And how do you keep a joe-job from turning your system
into a spam system? Or do you mean simply 404ing the transaction?

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