Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2740 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Tuesday, 2008-12-02 at 16:47 +0100, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:

> > > Any comments, suggestions, improvements are welcome.
> >
> > You also can filter them out with spamassassinn, ie, with a score. After
> > all, there are few messages of that kind. If there are many, just send a
> > copy to the list owner, so that he can take action and unsusbscribe the
> > culprit - which hopefully will teach him to do things right next time >:-)
>
> That would defeat the entire purpose of blocking certain mail at the MTA.
> I want to REJECT mail while the SMTP session is still open.
> If I first ACCEPT mail and then filter it with SpamAssassin, I simply
> cannot reject it any more, because the sender address is unreliable. Email
> spoofing is all too common and I don't want to be a bounce spammer.

I know that, but the main caveat is that you may also loose bonafide out 
of office replies, or people commenting about such things, as you yourself 
noted.

It is your system and your choice, of course. You prefer to go low on cpu. 
But you asked for comments... you got them ;-)

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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