Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2740 mails)

[Amedee Van Gasse <amedee@xxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. schreef:
> 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 ;-)


OK, then we understand each other. ;-)
It is indeed my system, used only by myself and the mrs, and I really
don't care about a few missing out of offices.
Anyway an out of office is a bit "enterprisey" and I usually don't mail
a lot of "enterprisey" people.

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Amedee
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