Re: [SAtalk] using spamd/spamc to reject SMTP connection

2003-10-31 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Friday, October 31, 2003 3:27 PM -0600 Bob Apthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could track the IP addresses of systems sending you spam from your > mail logs, drop those into a sendmail access list, then reject (5xx) or > tempfail (4xx) those systems for an hour or so, and reject more >

Re: [SAtalk] using spamd/spamc to reject SMTP connection

2003-10-31 Thread Bob Apthorpe
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:30:29 -0800 "Josiah DeWitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed SpamAssassin and got it working, but it just drops or > marks spam after it has already accepted it. While this /dev/null type > behavior is great, I would rather discourage spammers by refusing the >

Re: [SAtalk] using spamd/spamc to reject SMTP connection

2003-10-31 Thread Matt Kettler
look at spamass-milter or a similar milter-level plugin to sendmail. They can generally be configured to issue a 5xx level error at the end of the SMTP DATA phase if the SA score is over some threshold level. At 02:30 PM 10/31/2003, Josiah DeWitt wrote: I just installed SpamAssassin and got it w

Re: [SAtalk] using spamd/spamc to reject SMTP connection

2003-10-31 Thread Kelsey Cummings
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 11:30:29AM -0800, Josiah DeWitt wrote: > I just installed SpamAssassin and got it working, but it just drops or marks spam > after it has already accepted it. While this /dev/null type behavior is great, I > would rather discourage spammers by refusing the connection peri

Re: [SAtalk] using spamd/spamc to reject SMTP connection

2003-10-31 Thread Patrick Morris
In most cases I can think of, spamc doesn't get the message until after the connection is already finished. A milter is the only way I can think of you can get a result from SA before Sendmail's finished receiving the mail, and all the milters I'm aware of are capable of just the sort of behav

[SAtalk] using spamd/spamc to reject SMTP connection

2003-10-31 Thread Josiah DeWitt
I just installed SpamAssassin and got it working, but it just drops or marks spam after it has already accepted it. While this /dev/null type behavior is great, I would rather discourage spammers by refusing the connection period. I was wondering if there is a way of using spamd/spamc to reject