> On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 16:26:03 +0000 > Ian Eiloart <i...@sussex.ac.uk> wrote: > > Which is why my server does NO spam filtering. It's up to the > > users what to do about spam; > The trouble with that is that the ideal situation is that spammers > simply can't deliver their email.
There are two topics: - SPAM detection and tagging - SPAM blocking > If you check at the MTA, then you > can arrange this (false positives and false negatives > notwithstanding). If you _check_ at MTA level, you can help the user to make the right decision, with a clever scoring method. Then after your check, if you block at MTA level, I think it's bad. > If you leave it to the end user, it's too late to reject the email. If the user uses some filtering tool at MUA level _and_ the scoring is good quality, the final user wont see any SPAM. > As far as the spammer is concerned, the email is delivered. I dont agree. -- RMA. -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
