From: Dave Sill (extropians@dave.sill.org)
Date: Wed Apr 10 2002 - 15:40:34 MDT
Amara Graps <amara@amara.com> wrote:
> Robert J. Bradbury:
> >The problem with this is that it still allows the "spam" to be accepted
> >from the sender.[...]
>
> Please take a closer look at the docs at www.spambouncer.org
> They are responding to your wishes.
>
> SPAMREPLY=BOTH #SILENT tells the Spam Bouncer to filter spam,
> #but not attempt to autocomplain about it.
> #BOUNCE tells the Spam Bouncer to send a
> #"MAILER-DAEMON" bounce message to the spammer.
> #COMPLAIN tells the Spam Bouncer to send an
> #autocomplaint to the spammer's postmaster and
> #upstream sites. BOTH tells the Spam Bouncer to
> #send both a bounce to the sender and complain
> #to the spammer's postmaster.
None of that has anything to do with preventing messages from being
received by your mail server. Procmail, and hence Spam Bouncer, are
mail delivery agents, and can only operate on messages that have been
delivered to your system.
BTW, I mentioned Spam Bouncer in the spam chapter of my qmail book.
-Dave
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