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[ILUG] Spam and more spam

[ILUG] Spam and more spam

Brian Foster blf at utvinternet.ie
Wed Mar 3 07:30:37 GMT 2004


  | From: jm at jmason.org (Justin Mason)
  | Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 17:07:42 -0800
  | 
  | Rick Moen writes:
  | >o  Based on such checks, you can for various cases, as the sender
  | >   or delivering MTA deserves, either accept the mail and deliver
  | >   it, or pretend to accept the mail and drop it on the floor, or
  | >   55x reject it, or teergrube (tarpit) the delivering MTA using
  | >   45x SMTP messages.
  | 
  | That's true -- a very big plus for most people.
  | 
  | (Not me though, sadly.  in my case I have an interest in *receiving*
  | spam so I can record it for SpamAssassin development. that's life I
  | guess ;)
  | 
  | Hmm -- Rick -- can SA-exim divert possible spam to a side mbox?

 similar question:  is is possible to falsely reject the incoming
 (junk-)mail?  that is, the receiving MTA sends back some sort of
 rejection --- which presumably causes the sending MTA to never
 again try to deliver that particular e-mail --- whilst really
 saving the (suspected junk-)mail in a side mbox?

 just curious.....
not an MTA/RFC expert,
	-blf-
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