Because I do not assume to know where that extremely important email is coming from.
It is impossible to know the email addresses of all the future high value (business) relations. Thus you cannot whitelist all of them. And I do not wish to discus the lost email of great value to the bosses/end user/spouse, therefore all the bad email goes into quarantine for some time after which it gets deleted. Rob Verduijn 2011/10/19 Jeremy McSpadden <[email protected]> > And that makes you one of a million admins. Why not whitelist their domains > in postfix, then scan in MS. > > > -- > Jeremy McSpadden > > On Oct 19, 2011, at 8:00 AM, "Rob Verduijn" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I know it's easier on the cpu to let postfix deal with them. > > > But in some situations it's not possible to let them deal with it or to > have the sender send the email again. > These situations can lead to nasty discussion with bosses/endusers/spause. > > Therefore I rather spend some money on cpu-power/ram/storage (which come > rather cheap nowadays) and avoid that situation all together by putting the > mail aside for some time. > > But that's just my opinion and method of work. > Rob Verduijn > > 2011/10/19 Johan Hendriks <[email protected]> > >> Rob Verduijn schreef: >> >> after some bright insight moment I realised this is a postfix/mailscanner >> problem please ignore >> I removed the blacklists from postfix and configured them in mailscanner >> >> Rob Verduijn >> >> 2011/10/19 Rob Verduijn <[email protected]> >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I'm checking the mail logs and see that postfix is rejecting mail based >>> on blacklists and spf. >>> This is good because I apreciate it that it checks mails that way. >>> The bad is that they don't get into baruwa quarantine, which means I >>> cannot check for false positives or for that one high importance email send >>> by some person using the same mailserver as that spammer that got it >>> blacklisted. >>> >>> Is there a way to get these mails into quarantine in stead of being >>> rejected by postfix ? >>> >>> Rob Verduijn >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Keep Baruwa FREE - http://pledgie.com/campaigns/12056 >> >> Isnt it a waste of CPU cycles to let Mailscanner do these checks. >> If they are on those lists, then there was a problem at that site, and >> they need to make sure they get off that list. >> >> I block them, at postfix level. >> All companies that could not mail my company called to say they are >> blocked. >> Then you can tell them they are blacklisted, and that they should do >> something about it. >> >> I do not spend my CPU cycles on all that mail. >> At our side it saves me around 30000 mails per mailrelay per day that >> needs to be checked and we have three relay servers. >> >> regards >> Johan Hendriks >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Keep Baruwa FREE - http://pledgie.com/campaigns/12056 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Keep Baruwa FREE - http://pledgie.com/campaigns/12056 > > > _______________________________________________ > Keep Baruwa FREE - http://pledgie.com/campaigns/12056 > >
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