On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Peter Gordon wrote: > >The spamassassin plugin doesn't reject mail; it only adds the > >header. Someone was making a plugin to reject mails with a score > >higher than X; but I'm not sure he finished it. > > In other words the spamassassin plugin should not be used yet.
No, it is very useful as it is. In my email client I filter mail based on the header X-Spam-Status: Yes into a "spam" folder. - ask > >These mails were probably being denied (with a temporary error) by > >the require_resolvable_fromhost plugin. You can disable that plugin > >(as well as the rhsbl and the dnsbl plugin) in the plugins config > >file. > > > > Surely it would be better do deny with a permanent error so that the > sender knows immediately if there is a problem. The reason I say this is > that legitimate emails were being blocked. The problem with that is that many DNS errors are "transient". The senders name servers might be down this minute or this hour; so you don't want to bounce the mail right away. > As I undertstand it, the suggestion is that I disable spamassassin, > require_resolvable_host, rhsbl and dnsbl. In that case there don't seem > to be many plugins left, so what functionality would qpsmtpd give me? The ability to write new plugins, as Robert said. But the plugins you mentioned are the popular reasons to run qpsmtpd. - ask -- ask bjoern hansen, http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/ !try; do();
