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On Jul 1, 2008, at 4:54 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote:
Chris Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
I did not write this FYI.
It is because, if someone reports (by telephone, IRC or IRL) that he
sent an email and I did not receive it, I regard as VERY IMPORTANT to
be able to check the spam folder (with a search tool, not by hand)
and
go back to him saying "No, we really did not receive it".
The magic keyword: REJECT-ON-SMTP-DATA.
Aka during the "DATA" phase of the email, also directly scan it,
then when the spam/virus tool thinks it is spam/virus, you just
reject it.
This solves a couple of things in one go:
- No more 'spam' folder, as the stuff that is spam is already
rejected.
You might get a few mails through that are actually spam, but this
is
mostly marginal.
The lack of a spam folder is one of the problems with such a
solution. Having a middle ground quarantine is actually quite nice.
However, the biggest problem is these solutions are global in nature.
We let individual customers considerable control over the process.
They can each set their own block and quarantine levels, configure
their own white and blacklists and even turn the spam controls
completely off. For various reasons none of that would be possible
with this solution and all the implementations you link to all run
with a single global configuration.
Chris
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