On 4/11/06, Matthew Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you suggesting that we configure our e-mail servers to notify > people upon automatic deletion of spam? Frequently, spam cannot be > properly identified until closure of the SMTP conversation and that > final 200 mMESSAGE ACCEPTED...or do you think that TCP/IP connection > should be held open until the message can be scanned for spam and > viruses just so we can give a 550 MESSAGE REJECTED error instead of > silently dropping it? >
You can reject right after DATA, at the <CR><LF>.<CR><LF> stage, before QUIT That's still an in line smtp reject rather than an accept + bounce DSN. Exim with the spamassassin patches (sa-exim) does this, for example. -srs
