Dnia 16.03.2025 o godz. 19:15:51 Graeme Fowler via mailop pisze:
> So - this is an in-MTA reputation system.

In my view, you just built a spam filter into your MTA config :)

Spam filter doesn't necessarily have to be a separate program. If it is
possible to build a spam filter using just the available config features, of
course you can do it :)

Yes, MTAs obviously do have functionality that allows them to interface with
spam filters (and even build spam filters). Otherwise using spam filters
would be very hard, they would have to work only as external proxies to
"actual" MTAs. Even simple config file listing blacklisted senders can be
considered a kind of spam filter (although a very primitive and ineffective
one).

But no MTA I know of uses any reputation system (or more broadly, any spam
filtering at all) in its native code by default, as released by the developer. 
It's up to the user to add it. Maybe I should have added to my original
statement that I thought about the MTA "as is", not MTA with all the
possible modifications made by the user (remembering now how I tweaked the
config of my first sendmail - up to the point where it didn't resemble the
original at all ;)). But I thought it was obvious :)
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