>> But since the spam isn't detected until it reaches the primary, you can't
>> reject it at the SMTP phase before the spammer has disconnected. You end up
>> bouncing to the From or Reply-to address, which is often forged.
>
> Bounce? Yuck! We strongly discourage our customers from bouncing E-mail.
Note the difference between reject (at the SMTP level) and bounce (which involves composing a new message and submitting it to another MTA). Do you recommend accept and discard instead of reject?
It depends partly on the tools available to you -- with IMail (with or without IMail-specific addons), rejecting isn't possible. Rejecting can cause bounce messages to occur, so it isn't always an optimal solution (although much better than bouncing, as spamware isn't going to generate bounces from a reject).
-Scott
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