Right now I have MailScanner configured to delete high scoring spam so it doesn't end up in my user's mailbox, but what about the 'bounce' option?
IMO, post-delivery bounces of spam, such as MailScanner does, are of very questionable value.
99.99% of the spam bounces aren't going to be directed to any address the spammer owns, so the bounce does no good in that respect. They can be helpful in letting a legitimate sender re-send his/her message. Personally of the MailScanner options, I prefer tag or quarantine.
However, if you have SA directly integrated into your MTA, and can issue a 5xx series error _durring message delivery_ (ie: in response to the SMTP data command) instead of after, this is a pretty reasonable idea... I don't expect that will get you off any spam lists however... Most spammers seem to re-sell their lists and the more addresses they have in the list, the better.. even if 50% of them are dead :)
Unfortunately, MailScanner doesn't directly integrate to the MTA, so it could only do a post-delivery bounce message and can't do a 5xx durring the SMTP session.
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